| NOUN | animal | Old World monkey, catarrhine | of Africa or Arabia or Asia |
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| Meaning | Of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together. | |
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| Synonym | catarrhine | |
| Member of | Cercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae | (Old World monkeys) guenon |
| Narrower | baboon | large terrestrial / terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles |
| colobus, colobus monkey | arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs | |
| guenon, guenon monkey | small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face | |
| langur | slender long-tailed monkey of Asia | |
| macaque | short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa | |
| mangabey | large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids | |
| patas, hussar monkey, Erythrocebus patas | reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa | |
| proboscis monkey, Nasalis larvatus | Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose | |
| Broader | monkey | Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) |
| Spanish | catarrino, catarrinos | |
| Catalan | catarí, catarrinos | |
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