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hare-lipped monkeys

hare-lipped monkeys is the plural of hare-lipped monkey.

Meaning of hare-lipped monkey

Noun

hare-lipped monkey (plural hare-lipped monkeys)

  1. (dated) crab-eating macaque
    • They are the common hare-lipped monkey (Macacus cynomolgus), which is found all over the western islands of the Archipelago, and may have been introduced by natives, who often carry it about captive.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 294

Questions about hare-lipped monkeys

What is hare-lipped monkeys the plural of?
Hare-lipped monkeys is the plural of hare-lipped monkey.

Words near hare-lipped monkeys in the dictionary

  1. hare's-tail
  2. hare-brained
  3. hare-hearted
  4. hare-lipped
  5. hare-lipped monkey
  6. hare-lipped monkeys
  7. hare-net
  8. hare-skin
  9. hare-skins
  10. hare-wallabies
  11. hare-wallaby

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