| 单词 | egret monkey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasegret monkey egret monkey n. [after French aigrette (1766 in this sense: Buffon Hist. nat. XIV. 190; compare singe aigrette (1802 or earlier)); the monkey was so called by Buffon on account of the tuft on the top of its head] now historical a kind of monkey, apparently the female of certain macaques. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae > genus Macaca (macaque) macaque1757 macaco1774 egret monkey1780 Macacus1834 1780 W. Smellie in tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Gen. & Particular VIII. 140 (note) The egret monkey, with a long face, and an upright sharp pointed tuft on the top of the head. 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 60 The Egret Monkey is somewhat of the colour of a wolf. 1896 Miss Lang in A. Lang Animal Story Bk. 243 The egret monkeys are great thieves... They put as many stalks as they can carry in their mouths, in each paw, and under each arm. 1983 K. Thomas Man & Nat. World ii. 58 As for the egret monkey, ‘few animals are more dirty, ugly, or loathsome’. < as lemmas |
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