Crossword clues for vervet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vervet \Ver"vet\, n. (Zo["o]l.) A South African monkey ( Cercopithecus pygerythrus syn. Cercopithecus Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green, finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish white.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
South African monkey, 1884, from French (Cuvier), of unknown origin, perhaps short for vert grivet, literally "a green grivet," indicating it was greener than the kind of monkey known as a grivet (itself a name of unknown origin). "Vervets are among the monkeys carried about by organ-grinders" [Century Dictionary].
Wiktionary
n. A small African monkey, (taxlink Cercopithecus aethiops species noshow=1) or (taxlink Chlorocebus pygerythrus species noshow=1), having a long tail, a black face with white cheek tufts and a greenish-brown coat
WordNet
n. South African monkey with black face and hands [syn: vervet monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "vervet".
However, within any given estrus cycle the norm is for a woman to be involved with a single man, but the norm for a female vervet or bonobo is to be involved with several partners.
A dozen of Black Joke's sailors hurled the three-pronged grappling hooks high over the clipper's gunwale with the lines snaking up after them, and then heaved them up tight and made them fast to the portside cleats, and a swarm of seamen cheering wildly went up Huron, s stern , like a troop of vervet monkeys pursued into the trees by a hunting leopard.
Had the vervets in the acacia grove possessed automatic pistols, I reflected, they might have already stripped the tree of its burden of monkey bread.
They were festooned with garlands of lianas the ubiquitous monkey rope plants of Natal, and even as Mark watched, a small blue-grey vervet monkey dropped lithely down one of the living ropes, and, with its back arched like a cat and its long tail held high in mock alarm, bounded across an open stretch of lawn until it reached the next clump of trees where it shot to the highest branches and chattered insolently at the slowly passing car.
Since female vervets give no anatomical or behavioral signs of ovulation, the biologist Sandy Andelman sought out an acacia tree with a troop of vervets, stood under the tree, held up a funnel and bottle, collected urine when a female relieved herself, and analyzed the urine for hormonal signs of ovulation.
Thus, through concealed ovulation female vervets ensured the benevolent neutrality of almost all of the potentially murderous males in their immediate neighborhood.
Those thirty-two species include vervets, marmosets, and spider monkeys, as well as one ape, the orangutan.
But the largest number of primate speciesthirty-four, including vervets, bonobos, and chimpanzeeshave a promiscuous system in which females routinely associate and copulate with multiple males.
Safe in rats, safe in hamsters and vervets, effective against resistant strains of three nasty pathogens.
I’ve got one hundred and twenty-three people here and thirty vervets and twelve chimpanzees and we are dedicated to a very focused mission.
From the branches of the surrounding trees a throng of bandit-faced monkeys, probably vervets, had watched my run-in with the australopithecines.
Those primates who are only capable of lower forms of intelligence, from macaques to vervets, are looked after by the rest of us.