Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A macaque. See
Macacus . - noun The ring-tailed lemur or cat-lemur, the species of Lemur earliest known, described under this name by Buffon; the L. catta of Linnæus.
- noun The technical specific name of the ruffed lemur, L. macaco.
- noun Any lemur; a maki.
- noun The so-called yellow lemur or kinkajou, Cercoleptes caudivolvulus: a misnomer. See cut under
kinkajou .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (
Lemur macaco ), and the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta ).
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- noun A
macaque , or similar monkey. - noun obsolete Any of several species of
lemurs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Cada macaco no seu galho every monkey on its branch People should stick to their own affairs.
Why I Love That Country Benjamin Moser 2012
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"Britches Cries" is dedicated to the macaco monkey Britches, that in an American scientific research laboratory, to both days to be born, separated it of their mother and they sewed the eyelids to him to verify if the induced blindness produces cerebral injuries, putting under it simultaneously interminable sessions of ultrasounds emitted by great helmets tied to its small head by fabrics, all it almost greater than its own head.
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Del port. macaco, voz del Congo, que designa una especie de mona.
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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I find out that the word "macaca" is the feminine of the word "macaco."
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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For the monolingual among you, this translates as "From Portugese macaco, Congolese term meaning monkey."
Archive 2006-08-01 2006
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I inoculated a macaco (M. sinicus) with blood from the chimpanzee taken during the fever, and he also developed a fever.
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I cultivated lice on the macaco, which I then transported to other macacos.
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There was there also the _leiteiro_ (or producer of milk), a smaller tree, and the liana _macaco_, which both produced abundant milk, but in neither case had a way, so far, been found to coagulate it.
Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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Catarrhines (gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang) are in every respect slighter than the corresponding differences between the highest and the lowest Catarrhines (white-nosed monkey, macaco, baboon, etc.).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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The female of the great red kangaroo, however, is a delicate gray; while in the Lemur macaco of
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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