macaca sylvana

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

   SynonymsBarbary ape

   Broadermacaque

Questions about macaca sylvana

What does macaca sylvana mean?

macaca sylvana means "tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar".

What is another word for macaca sylvana?

Close synonyms include Barbary ape. 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 macaca sylvana a common word?

macaca sylvana 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.