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Definition of Cercopithecidae
1. Noun. Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Anthropoidea, Suborder Anthropoidea
Member holonyms: Catarrhine, Old World Monkey, Cercopithecus, Genus Cercopithecus, Cercocebus, Genus Cercocebus, Erythrocebus, Genus Erythrocebus, Genus Papio, Papio, Genus Mandrillus, Mandrillus, Genus Macaca, Macaca, Genus Presbytes, Mammal Semnopithecus, Presbytes, Genus Colobus, Genus Nasalis, Nasalis
Medical Definition of Cercopithecidae
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cercopithecidae
Literary usage of Cercopithecidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"The cercopithecidae and ... The cercopithecidae have the legs as long as the
arms, or longer, and go habitually on ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... and in the sigmoid curvature of the vertebral column the chimpanzees most
closely resemble man. (C.LL.M.) The families cercopithecidae, ..."
3. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"The shank is somewhat more differentiated from the blade than it is in either
the Cebidae or the cercopithecidae, in which respect it approaches that of the ..."
4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology (1907)
"1 L. , (a) European adult, (b) cercopithecidae, ... (c) cercopithecidae. Mean of L.
, (a) „ (6) „ (c) „ Mean of all , (a) „ (b) ., (e) „ IV. Rolandic Angle. ..."
5. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"... of cercopithecidae is always forked, while macaques and ... resembles very
much that of cercopithecidae. The cervical spine is bent slightly forward. ..."
6. Contributions to the Comparative Anatomy of the Mammalian Eye by George Lindsay Johnson (1901)
"They all have the characteristics which we find in the cercopithecidae. The disc
and the vessels are those common to all the ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Simians of the family cercopithecidae (macaques, baboons. and some other African
monkeys) are susceptible to many cytolytic viruses of humans and have been ..."
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