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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small, long-tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) having a black face with white cheek tufts and a yellowish-brown or greenish coat. Several subspecies of vervets have been recognized within a large range including most of sub-Saharan Africa. Also called green monkey, grivet.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A South African monkey, Cercopithecus pygerythrus, or C. lalandi. It is one of the so-called green monkeys, closely allied to the grivet. Vervets are among the monkeys carried about by organgrinders.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small African monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops or Chlorocebus pygerythrus, having a long tail, a black face with white cheek tufts and a greenish-brown coat

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus syn. Cercopithecus Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. South African monkey with black face and hands

Etymologies

  1. French : vert, green (from Old French verd; see verdant) + (gri)vet, grivet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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