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Rhesus

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Noun

1. macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkey

of southern Asia; used in medical research

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Rhesus

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noun
Greek mythology
a king of Thrace, who arrived in the tenth year of the Trojan War to aid Troy. Odysseus and Diomedes stole his horses because an oracle had said that if these horses drank from the River Xanthus, Troy would not fall

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Rhesus

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noun
a brownish-yellow macaque (Macaca mulatta) of India, often kept in zoos and used extensively in biological and medical research
: in full rhesus monkey

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Rhesus

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n.
A rhesus monkey.

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