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Barbary Ape

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Noun

1. barbary ape, macaca sylvana

tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar

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Barbary Ape

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noun
a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates

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Barbary Ape

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a tailless, apelike macaque monkey (Macaca sylvana) of N Africa and Gibraltar: the only surviving wild monkey in Europe

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Barbary Ape

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n.
A tailless monkey (Macaca sylvana) of Gibraltar and northwestern Africa. Also called magot.

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