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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rhesus monkey
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the gardens of a Buddhist temple somewhere in the Far East sat a contented looking rhesus monkey.
▪ Several storeys below, in a cage in the research and development department, sat an unhappy looking rhesus monkey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rhesus monkey

Macaque \Ma`caque"\, n. [F. See Macacus.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa; as, Macaca maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

Note: Macaca mulatta is the Rhesus monkey, much used in biomedical research, and namesake of the Rh factor used in blood typing (due to discovery of that factor in the Rhesus monkey).

Wiktionary
rhesus monkey

n. The rhesus macaque, ''Macaca mulatta''

WordNet
rhesus monkey

n. of southern Asia; used in medical research [syn: rhesus, Macaca mulatta]

Usage examples of "rhesus monkey".

He balanced himself against the fireplace and stared into the dying embers, concentrating with all he had to remember the name of that old rhesus monkey.

They broke camp at midnightMax Lamb, the rhesus monkey and the man who called himself Skink.

A male rhesus monkey whose nose isn't working can still recognize an ovulating female monkey by the slight reddening around her vagina, even though her reddening is not nearly so obvious as in a female baboon.

A small, light-grey creature, rather resembling an Earthly Rhesus monkey, crouched on the low-hanging branch of one of the huge trees at the water's edge and watched curiously the snake crawling through the grass towards the tree's trunk.

Once, a lab assistant caught him feeding an apple to a pregnant rhesus monkey.

The 11 animals were sheep, rhesus monkey, horse, kangaroo, rat, rabbit, dog, pig, human, cow and chimpanzee.

He opened a small compartment and took out a rhesus monkey, half asleep.

About the size of a large stuffed bear, spiny skin going from leaf color to red, shaped like a rhesus monkey but covered with the scales of a tiny dragon and bright yellow cat's eyes.