baboon-monkey

English

Noun

baboon-monkey (plural baboon-monkeys)

  1. (obsolete) The Celebes crested macaque, Macaca nigra.
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 54:
      A large black baboon-monkey (Cynopithecus nigrescens) is abundant in some parts of the forest. This animal has bare red callosities, and a rudimentary tail about an inch long--a mere fleshy tubercle, which may be very easily overlooked.
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