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WOOLLY MONKEY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("woolly monkey" is a kind of...):
New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)
Holonyms ("woolly monkey" is a member of...):
genus Lagothrix; Lagothrix (woolly monkeys)