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单词 mangabey
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mangabey

[ mang-guh-bey ]
/ ˈmæŋ gəˌbeɪ /

noun, plural man·ga·beys.

any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.

Origin of mangabey

First recorded in 1765–75; after Mangabey, a region in Madagascar

Words nearby mangabey

man flu, Manfredini, man Friday, manful, manga, mangabey, Mangalore, Mangaluru, mangan-, manganate, manganese
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Example sentences from the Web for mangabey

  • The mangabey has pouches on each side of his cheeks, and callosities on his posteriors.

    Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

  • Only four kinds of mangabey are known, and they are all found in Western Africa.

    The Animal World, A Book of Natural History|Theodore Wood

British Dictionary definitions for mangabey

mangabey
/ (ˈmæŋɡəˌbeɪ) /

noun

any of several large agile arboreal Old World monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, of central Africa, having long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

Word Origin for mangabey

C18: after the name of a region in Madagascar
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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