macaque (redirected from Macaques)

ma·caque  (m-kk, -käk)

n.

Any of several short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca of southeast Asia, Japan, Gibraltar, and northern Africa.

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[French, from Portuguese macaco; see macaco.]

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macaque [mak-kahk]

Noun

any of various Asian and African monkeys with cheek pouches and either a short tail or no tail [W African makaku]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa catarrhine, Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together genus Macaca, Macaca - macaques; rhesus monkeys Macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey - of southern Asia; used in medical research bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey, Macaca radiata - Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar crab-eating macaque, croo monkey, Macaca irus - monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines