green monkey
green monkey
nounDefinition of GREEN MONKEY
: a long-tailed monkey of any of several African subspecies of a guenon (Cercopithecus aethiops syn. Chloroebus aethiops) having greenish-appearing hair and often used in medical research —called also vervet
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1840
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