Word.ws English Dictionary

rhesus macaque

rhesus macaque noun: a monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.

rhesus macaque: a monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical...
Image: Chermundy, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

rhesus macaque (plural rhesus macaques)

  1. A monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.

rhesus macaque meaning in Bengali, Gujarati, Assamese and Nepali

rhesus macaque in Bengali

Macaca mulatta
রেসাস বানর reśaś banor, লাল বান্দর lal bandor

rhesus macaque in Gujarati

Macaca mulatta
માંકડું mā̃kḍũ

rhesus macaque in Assamese

Macaca mulatta
মলুৱা বান্দৰ molua bandor

rhesus macaque in Nepali

Macaca mulatta
रातो बाँदर rāto bā̃dar
More languagesFewer languages
rhesus macaque in Thai
ลิงวอก
rhesus macaque in Vietnamese
khỉ vàng

Synonyms of rhesus macaque

Forms of rhesus macaque

pluralrhesus macaques

Questions about rhesus macaque

What does rhesus macaque mean?
Rhesus macaque means a monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.
What is rhesus macaque in Bengali?
Rhesus macaque in Bengali is রেসাস বানর (reśaś banor), লাল বান্দর (lal bandor). See Rhesus macaque meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is rhesus macaque?
Rhesus macaque is a noun.
What is the plural of rhesus macaque?
The plural of rhesus macaque is rhesus macaques.

Words near rhesus macaque in the dictionary

  1. rheses
  2. rhesis
  3. rhesus
  4. Rhesus factor
  5. Rhesus factors
  6. rhesus macaque
  7. rhesus macaques
  8. rhesus monkey
  9. rhesus monkeys
  10. Rhesus negative
  11. Rhesus positive

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rhesus macaque (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rhesus macaque.wav.

Cite this entry: “rhesus macaque.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rhesus_macaque. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.