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macaque /məˈkɑːk /nounA medium-sized, chiefly forest-dwelling Old World monkey which has a long face and cheek pouches for holding food.- Genus Macaca, family Cercopithecidae: several species, including the rhesus monkey.
A lot more is known about cercopithecines, such as macaques, baboons and vervets, because many of them are ground-dwelling monkeys which are relatively easy to study....- Those species were chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, gibbon, macaque and owl monkey.
- Primate species are gibbons, langurs, lorises and macaques.
OriginLate 17th century: via French and Portuguese; based on the Bantu morpheme ma (denoting a plural) + kaku 'monkey'. Rhymesarc, ark, Bach, bark, barque, Braque, Clark, clerk, dark, embark, hark, impark, Iraq, Ladakh, Lamarck, lark, marc, mark, marque, narc, nark, Newark, park, quark, sark, shark, snark, spark, stark, Vlach |