mangabey
noun
any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.
mangabeys
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pluralof mangabey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Fannin collected video of wild mangabeys at the Taï Forest Monkey Project field station in Ivory Coast.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
Over years, they habituated chimps, mangabeys, and several other kinds of monkeys, and began documenting their lives.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 28, 2021
The seven groups of HIV-2, distinct as they were from one another, all resembled SIVsm, the virus endemic in sooty mangabeys.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 20, 2015
It is a blend of simian viruses from red-capped mangabeys and mustached guenons, small monkeys that chimps hunt and eat.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2011
Macaque, ma-kak′, n. a monkey of genus Macacus, between baboons and the African mangabeys.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
