English Explanatory Dictionary

mangabey

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any of several large, arboreal Old World monkeys in the genera Cercocebus and Lophocebus.

Word forms

mangabey mangabeys

Etymology

So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them to be native.

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