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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of Old World catarrhine monkeys of the family Cercopithecidæ or Cynopithecidæ; the macaques.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies, now usually called Macaca. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. See also macaca.

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