guenon

1. 1.

   small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face

   Synonymsguenon monkey

   BroaderOld World monkey

   Narrowertalapoingrivetvervetgreen monkey

   Part ofCercopithecus

Other forms of guenon

plural

guenons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about guenon

What does guenon mean?

guenon means "small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face".

How many syllables are in guenon?

guenon has 2 syllables: gue-non. The stress falls on "gue".

What is another word for guenon?

Close synonyms include guenon 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 guenon a common word?

guenon 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.