Definition of Cercopithecidae

1. Noun. Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.


Medical Definition of Cercopithecidae

1. The family of old world monkeys and baboons consisting of two subfamilies: cercopithecinae and colobinae. They are found in africa and part of asia. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cercopithecidae

cercarial
cercarian
cercarians
cercarias
cerchiaraite
cerci
cercidosome
cercises
cerclage
cercocebus
cercocebus atys
cercocystis
cercomer
cercomonad
cercopithecid
cercopithecidae (current term)
cercopithecids
cercopithecinae
cercopithecine
cercopithecines
cercopithecoid
cercopithecoids
cercopithecus
cercopithecus aethiops
cercopod
cercopods
cercus
cere
cerea flexibilitas
cereal

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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