Old World monkey

/oʊld wərld ˌmʌŋki/

Other forms: Old World monkeys

Definitions of Old World monkey

1. noun

   of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
   synonyms: catarrhine

   types:

   guenon, guenon monkey

   small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face

   mangabey

   large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

   Erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas

   reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa

   baboon

   large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles

   macaque

   a monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

   langur

   slender long-tailed monkey of Asia

   colobus, colobus monkey

   arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs

   Nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey

   Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose

   Cercopithecus talapoin, talapoin

   smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests

   Cercopithecus aethiops, grivet

   white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face

   Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet, vervet monkey

   South African monkey with black face and hands

   African green monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, green monkey

   common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail

   Papio ursinus, chacma, chacma baboon

   greyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa

   Mandrillus sphinx, mandrill

   baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters

   Mandrillus leucophaeus, drill

   similar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored

   Macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey

   of southern Asia; used in medical research

   Macaca radiata, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkey

   Indian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair

   Barbary ape, Macaca sylvana

   tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar

   Macaca irus, crab-eating macaque, croo monkey

   monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines

   Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus, entellus, hanuman

   langur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India

   Colobus guereza, guereza

   a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body

   type of:

   monkey

   any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)