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Definition of Green monkey
1. Noun. Common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail.
Generic synonyms: Guenon, Guenon Monkey
Definition of Green monkey
1. Noun. An Old World monkey of the genus ''Chlorocebus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Green Monkey
Literary usage of Green monkey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"No valvulae conniventes. The pancreas much as in the human. The uterus, &c.
lay in the pelvis, like a child's. [THE green monkey (Cercopithecus ..."
2. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated: Published by Edward Turner Bennett (1830)
"THE green monkey, although one of the most abundant of the long-tailed African
group, which constitutes the genus Cercopithecus of modern writers, ..."
3. The Riverside Magazine for Young People by Horace Elisha Scudder (1870)
"She had doubted about this, whether its being green would make it enough of the
sea ; but she looked round, and there sat the sweetest green monkey you ever ..."
4. Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce by Henry Poland (1892)
"white ; the legs are black and white inside. The tail is long and black, and
there are two characteristic white spots at base of tail. green monkey. ..."
5. The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang (1906)
"He would trust no one else with its care, and the whole Court soon talked of
nothing but the pretty green monkey. One morning, as Prince ..."
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