woolly monkey

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   large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins

   BroaderNew World monkey

   Part ofLagothrix

Questions about woolly monkey

What does woolly monkey mean?

woolly monkey means "large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins".

Is woolly monkey a common word?

woolly 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.