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BARBARY APE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Barbary ape mean?
• BARBARY APE (noun)
The noun BARBARY APE has 1 sense:
1. tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
Familiarity information: BARBARY APE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Barbary ape; Macaca sylvana
Hypernyms ("Barbary ape" is a kind of...):
macaque (short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa)
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