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Definition of Rhesus
1. Noun. Of southern Asia; used in medical research.
Definition of Rhesus
1. n. A monkey; the bhunder.
Definition of Rhesus
1. Noun. A macaque monkey native of southern and southeastern Asia; ''Macaca mulatta''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rhesus
1. an Asian monkey [n -ES]
Medical Definition of Rhesus
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rhesus
Literary usage of Rhesus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dream in Homer and Greek Tragedy by William Stuart Messer (1918)
"The rhesus has been the subject of endless controversy. ... In the story of the
Iliad, rhesus carried the subject-matter of the dream with him to the grave. ..."
2. Troy: Its Legend, History and Literature by Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1880)
"Dolon also informed them rhesus lhat on the extreme right lay rhesus, king of Thrace
... rhesus was slumbering on the ground, and the talismanic horses were ..."
3. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1893)
"A LTHOUGH the rhesus has been handed down to us as one of 2~\ the tragedies of
... In 1863 Frederic Hagenbach, who took the authorship of the rhesus as the ..."
4. The Speech of Monkeys by Richard Lynch Garner (1892)
"The Word for Food in the rhesus Dialect—The rhesus Sound of Alarm—The Dialect of the
... FROM a number of sounds uttered by the rhesus monkeys, ..."
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