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GENUS PITHECIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pithecia mean?

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

1. sakis

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS PITHECIA (noun)

Sense 1

genus Pithecia ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Sakis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Pithecia; Pithecia

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Pithecia"):

saki (small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail)

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

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

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