cercopithecus aethiops

1. 1.

   white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face

   Synonymsgrivet

   Broaderguenon

Questions about cercopithecus aethiops

What does cercopithecus aethiops mean?

cercopithecus aethiops means "white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face".

What is another word for cercopithecus aethiops?

Close synonyms include grivet. 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 cercopithecus aethiops a common word?

cercopithecus aethiops 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.