MANGABEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mangabey mean? 

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

1. large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MANGABEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

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Nouns denoting animals

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

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

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

Cercocebus; genus Cercocebus (mangabeys)