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WOOLLY MONKEY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does woolly monkey mean?
• WOOLLY MONKEY (noun)
The noun WOOLLY MONKEY has 1 sense:
1. large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
Familiarity information: WOOLLY MONKEY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("woolly monkey" is a kind of...):
New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)
Holonyms ("woolly monkey" is a member of...):
genus Lagothrix; Lagothrix (woolly monkeys)
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