Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The red monkey of western Africa, Cercopithecus patas or C. ruber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A West African long-tailed monkey (
Cercopithecus ruber ); the red monkey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Erythrocebus patas, a ground-dwelling long-tailed
monkey found in West and East Africa
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
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Examples
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"The Victoria and Albert Museum has a large collection of 'patas' - the bulk of which was purchased by John Lockwood Kipling, father of novelist Rudyard Kipling, from Kolkata.
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Tapan Chitrakar, meanwhile, is still haunted by the tsunami is his black-and-white monochrome 'patas'.
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"Bengal 'patas' are stepping stones to modernism in art," Hugo Weihe, senior vice-president and international director of Asian Art at Christie's, told IANS here.
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By Silla Sombra: su diseño engaña pareciendo que no hay patas traseras on November 27, 2009 at 7: 33 am
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The worst thing that a Mexican writer can say about another is escribe con las patas - 'he writes with his feet.'
First Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author 2008
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“Huele a patas” Smells like feet, Don Rafael booms out.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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Other Sahelian mammal species include an isolated and presumably highly inbred population of around 70 olive baboons Papio anubis, in the Tamgak massif, and an estimated 500 Patas monkeys Erythrocebus patas in the central massifs and plateaux.
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The worst thing that a Mexican writer can say about another is escribe con las patas - 'he writes with his feet.'
First Stop in the New World by David Lida: an interview with the author 2008
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Introduced patas and rhesus monkeys are the target now in Puerto Rico, as authorities are trying to stop their spread across the entire island.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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The most common primate recorded by Barber et al. was baboon Papio anubis, with lower numbers of patas and tantalus monkeys (Cercopithecus patas and C. tantalus), and low numbers of black and white colobus monkeys Colobus guereza in the dry forest.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic 2009
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