vervet monkey
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Vervet monkey — Vervet monkey[1] Vervet Monkey at Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Conservation status … Wikipedia
Vervet Monkey — Taxobox name = Vervet MonkeyMSW3 Groves|pages=159|id=12100508] status = LC status system = iucn3.1 regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Primates familia = Cercopithecidae genus = Chlorocebus species = C. pygerythrus… … Wikipedia
vervet monkey — žalioji markata statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Cercopithecus aethiops angl. grass monkey; green monkey; grivet; grivet monkey; savanna monkey; talapoin; vervet monkey vok. Grünaffe; grüne Meerkatze… … Žinduolių pavadinimų žodynas
vervet monkey — noun South African monkey with black face and hands • Syn: ↑vervet, ↑Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus • Hypernyms: ↑guenon, ↑guenon monkey … Useful english dictionary
vervet monkey — or vervet Any of several African races of slim, arboreal, diurnal Old World monkeys of the guenon species Cercopithecus aethiops and C. pygerythrus (family Cercopithecidae). They have large cheek pouches. The arms and legs are long, and the… … Universalium
vervet monkey — [ və:vɪt] noun a common African monkey with greenish brown upper parts and a black face. [Cercopithecus aethiops.] Origin C19: from Fr., of unknown origin … English new terms dictionary
monkey — monkeyish, adj. monkeyishly, adv. monkeyishness, n. /mung kee/, n., pl. monkeys, v., monkeyed, monkeying. n. 1. any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes,… … Universalium
vervet — (n.) African monkey, 1884, from French, of unknown origin, perhaps short for vert grivet, lit. a green grivet, indicating it was greener than the kind of monkey known as a grivet (itself a name of unknown origin) … Etymology dictionary
Vervet — Ver vet, n. (Zo[ o]l.) A South African monkey ({Cercopithecus pygerythrus} syn. {Cercopithecus Lelandii}). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
vervet — [vʉr′vit] n. [Fr < ? vert, green + grivet,GRIVET] a small guenon monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus) found in E and S Africa … English World dictionary
