old world monkey

Questions about old world monkey

What does old world monkey mean?

old world monkey means "of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together".

What is another word for old world monkey?

Close synonyms include catarrhine. 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 old world monkey a common word?

old 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.