Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A vervet (Chlorocebus aethiops) of northeast Africa.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small greenish-gray monkey of northeastern Africa, Cercopithecus griseiviridis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (
Cercopithecus griseo-viridis ), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called alsotota .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
Old World monkey , scientific name Chlorocebus aethiops, with long whitetufts of hair along the sides of the face.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, of unknown origin.]
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bilby commented on the word grivet
Also waag.
July 20, 2021