ateles geoffroyi

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   arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail

   Synonymsspider monkey

   BroaderNew World monkey

   Part ofAteles

Questions about ateles geoffroyi

What does ateles geoffroyi mean?

ateles geoffroyi means "arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail".

What is another word for ateles geoffroyi?

Close synonyms include spider monkey. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ateles geoffroyi a common word?

ateles geoffroyi is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.