crab-eating macaque

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   monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines

   Synonymscroo monkeyMacaca irus

   Broadermacaque

Questions about crab-eating macaque

What does crab-eating macaque mean?

crab-eating macaque means "monkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines".

What is another word for crab-eating macaque?

Close synonyms include croo monkey, Macaca irus. 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 crab-eating macaque a common word?

crab-eating macaque 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.