Macaque definitions

mə-kăk', -käk'
Any of a diverse group of monkeys of the genus Macaca of Asia, Gibraltar, and northern Africa, and including the Barbary ape and the rhesus monkey.
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Any of a genus (Macaca) of monkeys of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, with a long or short tail that is not prehensile, including the rhesus monkey and Barbary ape.
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Any of a diverse group of monkeys of the genus Macaca of Asia, Gibraltar, and northern Africa, and including the Barbary ape and the rhesus monkey.
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Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
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Origin of macaque

French from Portuguese macaco of Bantu origin Kongo makako monkeys ma- pl. n. pref. -kako monkey

Sentence Examples

  • There are several local races, one of which was long regarded as a separate species under the name of the Moor macaque, Macacus maurus.

  • MACAQUE, a name of French origin denoting the monkeys of the mainly Asiatic genus Macacus, of which one species, the Barbary ape, inhabits North Africa and the rock of Gibraltar.

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  • FAUNA Primates are rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta and langur Presbytis entellus.

  • macaque monkeys, using a visual search paradigm.

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