new world monkey

Questions about new world monkey

What does new world monkey mean?

new world monkey means "hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails".

What is another word for new world monkey?

Close synonyms include platyrrhine, platyrrhinian. 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 new world monkey a common word?

new world monkey 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.