CERCOPITHECIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cercopithecidae mean? 

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

1. Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERCOPITHECIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae

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

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Cercopithecidae"):

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

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

Cercocebus; genus Cercocebus (mangabeys)

Erythrocebus; genus Erythrocebus (patas)

genus Papio; Papio; genus Mandrillus; Mandrillus (baboons)

genus Macaca; Macaca (macaques; rhesus monkeys)

genus Presbytes; mammal Semnopithecus; Presbytes (langurs)

genus Colobus (a genus of Cercopithecidae)

genus Nasalis; Nasalis (proboscis monkeys)

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

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

 Context examples 

This group is divided into Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae) and New World monkeys (Callitrichidae and Cebidae).

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)