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GENUS LAGOTHRIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Lagothrix mean? 

GENUS LAGOTHRIX (noun)
  The noun GENUS LAGOTHRIX has 1 sense:

1. woolly monkeysplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS LAGOTHRIX used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS LAGOTHRIX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Woolly monkeys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Lagothrix; Lagothrix

Hypernyms ("genus Lagothrix" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lagothrix"):

woolly monkey (large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins)

Holonyms ("genus Lagothrix" is a member of...):

Cebidae; family Cebidae (all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins)


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