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PITHECIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sakis

Synonyms:

genus Pithecia; Pithecia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Pithecia" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Pithecia"):

saki (small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail)

Holonyms ("Pithecia" is a member of...):

Cebidae; family Cebidae (all the New World monkeys except marmosets and tamarins)

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