Definition of Family Cercopithecidae

1. Noun. Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Cercopithecidae

family Celastraceae
family Centrarchidae
family Centriscidae
family Centropomidae
family Cephalobidae
family Cephalotaceae
family Cephalotaxaceae
family Cerambycidae
family Ceratodontidae
family Ceratophyllaceae
family Ceratopogonidae
family Ceratopsidae
family Ceratostomataceae
family Cercidiphyllaceae
family Cercopidae
family Cercopithecidae (current term)
family Certhiidae
family Cervidae
family Cestidae
family Cetorhinidae
family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae

Literary usage of Family Cercopithecidae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the Study of Fossils (plants and Animals) by Hervey Woodburn Shimer (1914)
"The first, or the family Cercopithecidae, includes the extinct Oreopithecus (Middle Miocene of Europe) and the living baboons, macaques and langurs. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Simians of the family Cercopithecidae (macaques, baboons. and some other African monkeys) are susceptible to many cytolytic viruses of humans and have been ..."

3. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1908)
"Voigt (for references v. infra) has also lately published a valuable paper on this subject. t In monkeys of the family Cercopithecidae, the decidua ..."

4. The Natural History of the State: An Introduction to Political Science by Henry Jones Ford (1915)
"The family Cercopithecidae, which include the Gibraltar apes and the baboons, is gregarious. In 1893 the governor of Gibraltar counted as many as thirty ..."

5. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"THE CERCOPITHECINE MONKEYS This division of the family Cercopithecidae first appears in the Lower Pliocene of India, from which isolated molars not ..."

6. The Life of Animals: The Mammals by Ernest Ingersoll (1907)
"All the Old World monkeys, apart from the anthropoid apes, belong to a single family, Cercopithecidae, divisible into two sections: (i) small, agile, ..."

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