MANGABEY

mangabey

(noun) large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

mangabey (plural mangabeys)

Any of several large, arboreal monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae.

Source: Wiktionary


Man"ga*bey, n. Etym: [So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black. [Also written mangaby.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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