Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Cebidæ and subfamily Cebinæ, containing the ordinary prehensile-tailed and thumbed South American monkeys. The monkeys carried about by organ-grinders generally belong to this genus. See cut under
Cebinæ .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun the type genus of the
Cebidae .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun type genus of the Cebidae
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Examples
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Wagner was right, and that all the American monkeys of the genus cebus may be reduced to a single species or to two.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Sometimes, but more rarely, a troop of the white-faced cebus monkey would be fallen in with, rapidly running away, throwing themselves from tree to tree.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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We saw monkeys, the common yellowish kind, a species of cebus; a couple were shot for the museum and the others raced off among the upper branches of the trees.
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We saw monkeys, the common yellowish kind, a species of cebus; a couple were shot for the museum and the others raced off among the upper branches of the trees.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888
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The cebus did not wait to be shown how to do things, but was an adept in devising ways to do them himself.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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The cebus did not need to be shown how to do things; it worked them out for itself much as a man would have done, performing acts of an intricacy far beyond any ever observed in other classes of animals in captivity.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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"Animal Intelligence," of the doings of a cebus monkey, which he kept for several months under close observation in his own house.
Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Charles Morris 1877
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Sometimes, but more rarely, we would fall in with a troop of the white-faced cebus monkey, rapidly running away, throwing themselves from tree to tree.
The Naturalist in Nicaragua Thomas Belt 1855
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+ The _cebus azarae_, a monkey of Paraguay, makes six distinct sounds when excited, which causes its comrades to emit similar sounds. [
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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