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grivet

grivet noun: an Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.

grivet: an Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face
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Noun

grivet (plural grivets)

  1. An Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.

Forms of grivet

pluralgrivets

Origin of grivet

From French grivet.

Questions about grivet

What does grivet mean?
Grivet means an Old World monkey, Chlorocebus aethiops, with long white tufts of hair along the sides of the face.
What part of speech is grivet?
Grivet is a noun.
What is the plural of grivet?
The plural of grivet is grivets.

Words near grivet in the dictionary

  1. gritty
  2. Gritz
  3. Gritzes
  4. grivation
  5. grivations
  6. grivet
  7. grivets
  8. Grivița
  9. grivna
  10. grivnas
  11. Grix

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