Barbary ape
a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvanus, of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, now greatly reduced in number: a small, managed colony of unknown origin is maintained on the Rock of Gibraltar.
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The magot is sometimes known as the Barbary ape, although of course it is not really an ape at all.
The Animal World, A Book of Natural History | Theodore WoodEvery fireman, and occasionally an engineer, on the passing trains, had a shot with a lump of coal at the Barbary ape.
Harper's Young People, July 26, 1881 | VariousThe Simia Inues, or Barbary ape, seems to be one, as we might expect.
The Primates are represented by one form only, the Barbary ape, found in Gibraltar.
Modern Geography | Marion I. NewbiginBeware especially, in this house, of the paws of Marie, the Barbary ape.
British Dictionary definitions for Barbary ape
a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
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