Barbary ape

Barbary ape

n.
A tailless monkey (Macaca sylvana) of Gibraltar and northwestern Africa. Also called magot.
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Barbary ape

n
(Animals) a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
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Bar′bary ape′


n.
a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvanus, of mountain ranges in NW Africa and Gibraltar.
[1870–75]
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Noun1.Barbary ape - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and GibraltarBarbary ape - tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
Macaca sylvana
macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
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