new world monkey

Questions about new world monkey

What is another word for new world monkey?

It depends which new world monkey you mean. In the sense “hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails”, the synonyms are platyrrhine, platyrrhinian. Across all 1 sense there are 2 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of new world monkey?

WordNet records no antonym for new world monkey. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for new world monkey come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

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• Full entry for new world monkeyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for new world monkeyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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