Definition of Monkeys

1. Noun. (plural of monkey) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of monkey) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monkeys

1. monkey [v] - See also: monkey

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkeys

monkeyed
monkeyflower
monkeyflowers
monkeygland
monkeyhood
monkeying
monkeyish
monkeykind
monkeylike
monkeypod
monkeypods
monkeypot
monkeypots
monkeypox
monkeypox virus
monkeys (current term)
monkeyshine
monkeyshines
monkeywrench
monkeywrenching
monkfish
monkfishes
monkhood
monkhoods
monkie
monkied
monkies
monking

Literary usage of Monkeys

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1920)
"It has been shown in preceding papers1-2 that pneumonia may be produced readily in normal monkeys by the intratracheal injection of pneumococcus and that ..."

2. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"All monkeys with such a prehensile tail are peculiar to South America. ... Then there are a certain number of the monkeys of South America which have ..."

3. Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources by Anton Schiefner (1906)
"THE monkeys SAVED FROM DEATH.l ig-past times there lived in a hill-place a troop five ... And a hedge of thorns must be drawn around, and the monkeys must ..."

4. Essays on Physiognomy by Johann Caspar Lavater, Thomas Holcroft (1878)
"He is not so impatient as the Barbary ape, nor so vicious as the baboon, 1, nor so mischievous as long-tailed monkeys No species of monkey has the human lip ..."

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