macaque

Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.

Noun

  1. Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
    • They are able to recall past images and apply them to current problem solving. In other words, macaques employ memory in order to survive. - 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 43:

Origin

Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco.

Forms

macaques

Related

Barbary ape

Derived

Barbary macaque bonnet macaque Celebes crested macaque crab-eating macaque crested black macaque Japanese macaque lion-tailed macaque long-tailed macaque moor macaque pig-tailed macaque pigtail macaque rhesus macaque southern pig-tailed macaque Sulawesi crested macaque tump-tailed macaque