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GENUS MACACA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Macaca mean?

• GENUS MACACA (noun)
The noun GENUS MACACA has 1 sense:

1. macaques; rhesus monkeys

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS MACACA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Macaques; rhesus monkeys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Macaca; Macaca

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Macaca"):

macaque (short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa)

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

Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)

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