macaque
/məˈkæk/
macaque noun: any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
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Noun
macaque (plural macaques)
- Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
- They are able to recall past images and apply them to current problem solving. In other words, macaques employ memory in order to survive.2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 43
macaque meaning in Tamil, Kannada and Vietnamese
macaque in Tamil
- சிறுகுரங்கு, அசாம் குரங்கு, ரீசஸ் குரங்கு, செங்குரங்கு, நாட்டுக்குரங்கு
macaque in Kannada
- ಕೋತಿ
macaque in Vietnamese
- any monkey of the genus Macaca
- khỉ
More languagesFewer languages
- Kashmiri
- پۆنٛز ponz
Examples of macaque in a sentence
- Japanese macaques have long red faces and eyes that are close-set like those of George W.
- But why are rhesus macaques found in that part of the New Territories in such numbers?
- “Deforestation has resulted in the migration of macaques to the forest fringes, alongside with the simiophagic mosquito vectors.”
Forms of macaque
| plural | macaques |
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Origin of macaque
Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco.
Words formed from macaque
Phrases with macaque
Words that rhyme with macaque
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- plaque
- whack
- slack
- Cadillac
- swack
- thwack
- pac
- shack
- bivouac
- cack
- clack
- gack
- lack
- smack
- unpack
- wrack
- aback
- flak
- hark back
- mack
- claque
- flack
- knack
- quack
- shellac
- snack
- yak
- Aach
- ack
- gak
- mac
- Meshach
- multitrack
- plack
- snacc
- wack
- akh
- alack
- awrack
- brach
- cac
- Cayman Brac
- Chiraq
- cook back
- craic
- diclofenac
- dictionary attack
- dime back
Questions about macaque
- What does macaque mean?
- Macaque means any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
- What is macaque in Tamil?
- Macaque in Tamil is சிறுகுரங்கு, அசாம் குரங்கு, ரீசஸ் குரங்கு. See Macaque meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is macaque?
- Macaque is a noun.
- How do you pronounce macaque?
- Macaque is pronounced /məˈkæk/.
- What is the plural of macaque?
- The plural of macaque is macaques.
Words near macaque in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: macaque (page history and authors); macaque (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); macaque (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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