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mangabey

Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

mangabey(n = noun.animal) - large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids;

is a member of cercocebus, genus cercocebus

mangabey, n. [So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.].

Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus fuliginosus), which is sooty black. [1913 Webster]

mangabey, n. any small long-tailed W. African monkey of the genus Cercocebus.

Etymology

Mangabey, a region of Madagascar

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