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Definition of Grivet
1. Noun. White and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face.
Definition of Grivet
1. n. A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.
Definition of Grivet
1. Noun. An Old World monkey, scientific name ''Chlorocebus aethiops'', with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Grivet
1. a small monkey [n -S]
Medical Definition of Grivet
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Grivet
Literary usage of Grivet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Percy Anecdotes by Sholto Percy (1839)
"during which, grivet subsisted on some provisions which he found scattered ...
grivet was summoned before it. It was a moment of lenity with the judges, ..."
2. Sixty Curious and Authentic Narratives and Anecdotes Respecting by William Hone (1819)
"grivet remained all this time in his solitude, subsisting on some scattered ...
grivet answered, that he had been there four days: "Doubtless," he added, ..."
3. The Percy Anecdotes: Revised Edition (1847)
"But grivet was calm and composed. " Come and stip with ет," »aid they, " this is
the last inn in the jour- »*y of life; tomorrow we shall arrive at our long ..."
4. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1843)
"A tradesman of Lyons, of th* name of grivet, was, during the reign of terror in
France, ... during which grivet subsisted on some provisions which he found ..."
5. The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy by Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy (1826)
"But grivet was calm and composed. " Come and sup with us," said they, ...
during which, grivet subsisted on some provisions which he found scattered about ..."
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