Pluto monkey
noun
1
: a long-tailed West African guenon monkey (Cercopithecus leucampyx) of a grizzled blackish color with a white frontal band
2
: a red guenon (Erythrocebas pyrrhonotus) often kept as a pet in ancient Egypt and a favorite of present-day organ-grinders
Word History
Etymology
after Pluto, Greek god of the subterranean world of the dead
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- devil's horse
- devil's ironweed
- Devil's Island
- devil's ivy
- devil's lettuce
- devil's mark
- devil's mass
- devil's milk
- devil's paintbrush
- devil's paternoster
- devil's picture book
- devil's shoestring
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- devil's slide
- devil's tattoo
- devil's toenail
- devil's trumpet
- devil's-apple
- devil's-apron
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