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n. A New World monkey of the genus ''Cebus'', coloured black on the top of the head.
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The capuchin monkeys ( or ) are New World monkeys of the subfamily Cebinae. They are readily identified as the "organ-grinder" monkey, and have been used in several movies and television shows. The range of capuchin monkeys includes Central America and South America as far south as northern Argentina. In Central America, they usually occupy the wet lowland forests on Caribbean coast of Costa Rica and Panama and deciduous dry forest on the Pacific coast.
Usage examples of "capuchin monkey".
He was no longer a Capuchin monkey, but a full-grown silverback gorilla.
The machine is repaired by Seaton Benecke, a strange young man whose pet/familiar is a sinister capuchin monkey, but it develops the habit of writing on its own, interrupting the narrative with its own additions, side-tracks, dreams and nightmares.
With the professor, and clinging to his neck, was a very melancholy capuchin monkey.
Aubrey's expression was a mirror of the cross, pinched face of the Capuchin monkey that watched the two men through the bars.
Lempo, Godiva's hype, a Capuchin monkey, possessed a Reed-Slate One Sixty Four Minimicrocomputer for a brain, with artificial intelligence software from the Michaels-Nabokov Corporation, part of their Evolving Companion/Guardian Mindset line.
And clinging to his bald brown head was a black-fanged, green-scaled, red-eyed creature the size of a capuchin monkey.
Spot, a handsome, brown, Capuchin monkey the size of a doll, stared frankly at him.
The small furry shape of the Capuchin monkey that had been prowling around on the bookshelf stopped at the sound of my voice, cocking its head to study me with a puzzled look.
And presently a little Capuchin monkey, very clean, with a fur of ruddy brown and kindly hazel eyes, came down a tree to us and ran beside me, looking up at me and grinning, and presently leapt to my shoulder.