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GRIVET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does grivet mean? 

GRIVET (noun)
  The noun GRIVET has 1 sense:

1. white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the faceplay

  Familiarity information: GRIVET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GRIVET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cercopithecus aethiops; grivet

Hypernyms ("grivet" is a kind of...):

guenon; guenon monkey (small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face)


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