macaque

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of several short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca of southeast Asia, Japan, Gibraltar, and northern Africa.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A monkey of the genus Macacus; one of the several kinds of monkeys coming between baboons and the African mangabeys. The term has undergone the same restriction of meaning as Macacus; and most of the macaques, in a former sense of the word, have received special names. The Javan macaque, M. cynomolgus. with beetling brows and tail about as long as the body, is a fair example of the arboreal forms. The munga, M. sinicus of India, is known as the bonnet-macaque, from the top-knot which parts in the middle. The bunder, or rhesus macaque, M. rhesus, is a very common Indian species. The bruh, or pig-tailed macaque, M. nemestrinus, is a long-limbed form inhabiting the Philippines, with the tail of moderate length. In the Bornese black macaque, M. maurus, the tail is a mere stump. Some of these monkeys reach the snow-line in Tibet, as M. thibetanus. A remarkable species, the wanderoo, M. silenus, with a tufted tail and the face set in an enormous frill of long gray hair, inhabits Malabar. Sometimes spelled macake.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa