green monkey

noun

Definition of green monkey

: a long-tailed monkey of any of several African subspecies of a guenon (Cercopithecus aethiops synonym Chloroebus aethiops) having greenish-appearing hair and often used in medical research

— called also vervet

Examples of green monkey in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web How did an African green monkey that died in 1962 get involved in the biggest research debacle of this pandemic? — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, "Scientists May Be Using the Wrong Cells to Study Covid-19," 6 Aug. 2020 In African green monkey cells that had been infected with the SARS coronavirus, an organic nitric oxide compound cut the virus’s ability to replicate in half. — Los Angeles Times, "How a discovery that brought us Viagra could help those battling the coronavirus," 5 Apr. 2020 Yet others are racing to infect macaques, marmosets, and African green monkeys. — Eric Boodman, STAT, "From ferrets to mice and marmosets, labs scramble to find right animals for coronavirus studies," 5 Mar. 2020 The alarm call vervet monkeys use to warn of martial eagles is nearly identical to the call green monkeys use to warn of drones. — Rafil Kroll-zaidi, Harper's magazine, "Findings," 22 July 2019 At Thebes, in the tomb of the Valley of the Kings, He was depicted in a hieroglyph, his forelegs gently tethered By two slaves with a green monkey clinging to his neck like a child Just along for the ride. — Connie Bruck, The New Yorker, "Giraffe," 14 Mar. 2018 Jakob Segal, an East German biologist who promoted the Soviet campaign, seized on growing doubts from a theory that the virus had jumped from African green monkeys to humans. — Linda Qiu, New York Times, "Fingerprints of Russian Disinformation: From AIDS to Fake News," 12 Dec. 2017

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