Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of Old World catarrhine monkeys of the family Cercopithecidæ or Cynopithecidæ; the macaques.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies, now usually called
Macaca . They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. See alsomacaca .
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Examples
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In many monkeys, which do not stand high in the order, as baboons and some species of macacus, the upper portion of the ear is slightly pointed, and the margin is not at all folded inwards; but if the margin were to be thus folded, a slight point would necessarily project towards the centre ....
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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Again, with regard to hair, Darwin notices that occasionally there appears in man a few hairs in the eyebrows much longer than the others; and that they seem to be representative of similarly long and scattered hairs which occur in the chimpanzee, macacus, and baboons.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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This is likewise the case in anthropoid apes; but in not a few other Quadrumana (e.g. baboons, macacus, magots, &c.) degeneration has not proceeded so far, and the ears are voluntarily moveable.
Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions George John Romanes 1871
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A jaw-bone and tooth of an animal of this order, and belonging to the genus macacus, were found in the
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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