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PATAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patas mean? 

PATAS (noun)
  The noun PATAS has 1 sense:

1. reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PATAS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Erythrocebus patas; hussar monkey; patas

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

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

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

Erythrocebus; genus Erythrocebus (patas)


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