old world monkey
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1. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | monkey, |
| definition | : | any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | guenon, guenon monkey, |
| definition | : | small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mangabey, |
| definition | : | large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | baboon, |
| definition | : | large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | macaque, |
| definition | : | short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | langur, |
| definition | : | slender long-tailed monkey of Asia (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | colobus, colobus monkey, |
| definition | : | arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae, |
| definition | : | Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | catarrhine, catarrhinian, |
| definition | : | of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | catarrhine, catarrhinian, |
| definition | : | of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all) |
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