barbary ape

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   tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar

   SynonymsMacaca sylvana

   Broadermacaque

Questions about barbary ape

What does barbary ape mean?

barbary ape means "tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar".

What is another word for barbary ape?

Close synonyms include Macaca sylvana. 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 barbary ape a common word?

barbary ape 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.