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old world monkey

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English

Syllables
old -world -mon-key
IPA
28
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any primate of the family Cercopithecidae.

noun

A member of a group of primates, falling in the superfamily Cercopithecoidea in the clade Catarrhini.

Inflected Forms

Old World monkeys (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

New World monkey

Synonyms

cercopithecid catarrhine

Questions

What does old world monkey mean?
Any primate of the family Cercopithecidae.

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