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Definition of Macaque
1. Noun. Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa.
Group relationships: Genus Macaca, Macaca
Specialized synonyms: Macaca Mulatta, Rhesus, Rhesus Monkey, Bonnet Macaque, Bonnet Monkey, Capped Macaque, Crown Monkey, Macaca Radiata, Barbary Ape, Macaca Sylvana, Crab-eating Macaque, Croo Monkey, Macaca Irus
Definition of Macaque
1. n. Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.
Definition of Macaque
1. Noun. Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus ''Macaca''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Macaque
1. a short-tailed monkey [n -S]
Medical Definition of Macaque
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Macaque
Literary usage of Macaque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"X. 49 macaque, a name given to several ... The common macaque (M. ... The pig-
tailed macaque (M. rhesus, Geoffr.), from eastern India, is grayish green ..."
2. Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1792)
"The hair on the forehead of this is black, whereas that of the macaque is ...
The egret alfo has a longer tail than the macaque, in proportion to the length ..."
3. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"See macaque. WAPELLO, a SE county of Iowa, intersected by the Des Moines river ;
area, 432 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 22346. The surface is undulating and the ..."
4. The Growth of the Brain: A Study of the Nervous System in Relation to Education by Henry Herbert Donaldson (1895)
"Brain of the macaque monkey, showing the sensory and motor areas. In the sensory
region the name of the sensation is over the locality most closely ..."
5. The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner (1892)
"Monkeys and the Mirror—Some of their Antics—Baby macaque and her Papa—Some other
Monkeys. I HAVE incidentally mentioned elsewhere the use of the mirror in ..."
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