NEW WORLD MONKEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New World monkey mean? 

• NEW WORLD MONKEY (noun)
  The noun NEW WORLD MONKEY has 1 sense:

1. hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails

  Familiarity information: NEW WORLD MONKEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW WORLD MONKEY (noun)

Meaning:

Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails

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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian

Hypernyms ("New World monkey" is a kind of...):

monkey (any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New World monkey"):

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

Saimiri sciureus; squirrel monkey (small long-tailed monkey of Central American and South America with greenish fur and black muzzle)

Ateles geoffroyi; spider monkey (arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail)

titi; titi monkey (small South American monkeys with long beautiful fur and long nonprehensile tail)

uakari (medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail)

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

howler; howler monkey (monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry)

Aotus trivirgatus; douroucouli (nocturnal monkey of Central America and South America with large eyes and thick fur)

capuchin; Cebus capucinus; ringtail (monkey of Central America and South America having thick hair on the head that resembles a monk's cowl)

marmoset (small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails)

Holonyms ("New World monkey" is a member of...):

Platyrrhini; superfamily Platyrrhini (New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin)