GUENON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guenon mean? 

• GUENON (noun)
  The noun GUENON has 1 sense:

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUENON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

guenon; guenon monkey

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

catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "guenon"):

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)

Holonyms ("guenon" is a member of...):

Cercopithecus; genus Cercopithecus (type genus of the Cercopithecidae: guenons)