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单词 macaque
释义

macaque

/məˈkɑːk /
noun
A 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.

Origin

Late 17th century: via French and Portuguese; based on the Bantu morpheme ma (denoting a plural) + kaku 'monkey'.

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