vervet monkey

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   South African monkey with black face and hands

   SynonymsvervetCercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus

   Broaderguenon

Questions about vervet monkey

What does vervet monkey mean?

vervet monkey means "South African monkey with black face and hands".

What is another word for vervet monkey?

Close synonyms include vervet, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus. 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 vervet monkey a common word?

vervet 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.