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Definition of Family 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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cercopithecidae
Literary usage of Family Cercopithecidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"The first, or the family Cercopithecidae, includes the extinct Oreopithecus (Middle
Miocene of Europe) and the living baboons, macaques and langurs. ..."
2. 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 ..."
3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"Voigt (for references v. infra) has also lately published a valuable paper on
this subject. t In monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae, the decidua ..."
4. The Natural History of the State: An Introduction to Political Science by Henry Jones Ford (1915)
"The family Cercopithecidae, which include the Gibraltar apes and the baboons, is
gregarious. In 1893 the governor of Gibraltar counted as many as thirty ..."
5. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"THE CERCOPITHECINE MONKEYS This division of the family Cercopithecidae first
appears in the Lower Pliocene of India, from which isolated molars not ..."
6. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"All the Old World monkeys, apart from the anthropoid apes, belong to a single
family, Cercopithecidae, divisible into two sections: (i) small, agile, ..."
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