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Definition of Patas
1. Noun. Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa.
Generic synonyms: Catarrhine, Old World Monkey
Group relationships: Erythrocebus, Genus Erythrocebus
Definition of Patas
1. n. A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.
Definition of Patas
1. Noun. ''Erythrocebus patas'', a ground-dwelling long-tailed monkey found in West and East Africa ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Patas
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Patas
Literary usage of Patas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce by Henry Poland (1892)
"patas MONKEY. Cercopithecus patas. Two feet long, flat reddish-brown, grizzly at
flank, whiter at hind legs. All these animals inhabit the West Coast of ..."
2. Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1797)
"THE patas. THIS animal (fig. lo$.j is a native of the fame country, and is nearly
of the fame fize as the macaque ; but the body is longer, the face not fo ..."
3. Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1792)
"THE patas. THIS animal (fig, 205) is a native of the fame country, and is nearly
of the fame fize as the macaque; but the body is longer, the face not fo ..."
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