Definition of old world monkey Old world monkey
Old World mon•key
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What does old world monkey mean?
WordNet
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| old world monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together | ||
| catarrhine | ||
| monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) | ||
| cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey | ||
| guenon, guenon monkey small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | ||
| mangabey large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | ||
| erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa | ||
| baboon large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles | ||
| macaque short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa | ||
| langur slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | ||
| colobus, colobus monkey arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | ||
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Wiktionary 
- old world monkey (Noun)
A group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini.
