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MONKEY , a See also:

term apparently applicable to all members of the See also:order See also:PRIMATES (q.v.) except See also:man and perhaps the larger apes. In See also:zoology it may be used in this wider sense, as inclusive of all the Primates except man and lemurs; but it may also be employed in a more restricted application, so as to denote all See also:ordinary " monkeys " as distinct from baboons on the one See also:hand and the tail-less man-like apes on the other. The word appears in See also:English first in the 16th See also:century. The See also:Low-See also:German version of Reynard the See also:Fox (Reinke de Vos, 1479) calls the son of See also:Martin, the See also:ape, Moneke; and the See also:French version has Monnekin, Monnequin; these are apparently See also:Teutonic diminutives of a word for ape which occurs in several Romanic See also:languages, e.g. Fr. monne, It. See also:manna, &c.

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