Old World monkey

Old World monkey

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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) any monkey of the family Cercopithecidae, including macaques, baboons, and mandrills. They are more closely related to anthropoid apes than are the New World monkeys, having nostrils that are close together and nonprehensile tails Compare New World monkey

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Old World monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together catarrhine Cercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) guenon, guenon monkey - small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face mangabey - large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids Erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas - reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa baboon - large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa langur - slender long-tailed monkey of Asia colobus, colobus monkey - arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs Nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey - Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose