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macaque

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun macaque has 1 sense

macaque(n = noun.animal) - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa;

is a kind of

catarrhine

old world monkey

is a member of genus macaca, macaca

has particulars: macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey, macaca radiata, barbary ape, macaca sylvana, crab-eating macaque, croo monkey, macaca irus

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CIDE DICTIONARY

macaque, n. [F. See Macacus.].

Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa; as, Macaca maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

"Macaca mulatta is the Rhesus monkey, much used in biomedical research, and namesake of the Rh factor used in blood typing (due to discovery of that factor in the Rhesus monkey)." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

macaque, n. any monkey of the genus Macaca, including the rhesus monkey and Barbary ape, having prominent cheek pouches and usu. a long tail.

Etymology

F f. Port. macaco f. Fiot makaku some monkeys f. kaku monkey

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