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