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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small arboreal monkeys of the genus Saimiri of Central and South American tropical forests, having a white face with a black nose and mouth, short fur, and a long nonprehensile tail.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of many kinds of small South American monkeys with a long, bushy, and nonprehensile tail: so called from their general aspect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun any of several small
New World monkeys , of thegenus Saimiri, that live inCentral andSouth America
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small long-tailed monkey of Central American and South America with greenish fur and black muzzle
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