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guenon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun guenon has 1 sense
- guenon(n = noun.animal) guenon monkey - small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face; Array is a kind of catarrhine, old world monkey
is a member of cercopithecus, genus cercopithecus
has particulars: cercopithecus talapoin, talapoin, cercopithecus aethiops, grivet, cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet, vervet monkey, african green monkey, cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, green monkey
CIDE DICTIONARY
guenon, n. [F.].
Any of several long-tailed arboreal African monkeys, of the genera Cercopithecus and Erythrocebus (formerly classified as Cercocebus ), such as as the green monkey (Cercopithecus callitrichus ) and grivet (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis ). [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
guenon, n. any African monkey of the genus Cercopithecus, having a characteristic long tail, e.g. the vervet.
Etymology
F: orig. unkn.
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