hare-lipped monkey

noun

crab-eating macaque

Meanings

nounhare-lipped monkey (plural hare-lipped monkeys)

plural hare-lipped monkeys

  1. datedcrab-eating macaque

    They are the common hare-lipped monkey (Macacus cynomolgus), which is found all over the western islands of the Archipelago, and may have been introduced by natives, who often carry it about captive.

    1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 294
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