mangabey

[ mang-guh-bey ]

noun

, plural man·ga·beys.

1. any of several slender, long-tailed monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, inhabiting forests of Africa: some species are endangered.

mangabey

/ ˈmæŋɡəˌbeɪ /

noun

1. any of several large agile arboreal Old World monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, of central Africa, having long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids

Word History and Origins

Origin of mangabey¹

First recorded in 1765–75; after Mangabey, a region in Madagascar

Word History and Origins

Origin of mangabey¹

C18: after the name of a region in Madagascar

Example Sentences

As Joy recalled, "I actually really enjoyed observing and measuring the mangabeys' climbing behavior in the videos. They're adorable animals, and despite the fact that they were different individuals, I named them all Geronimo."

From Salon

So far, however, only six wild animals trapped in Africa have yielded the virus: three rope squirrels, a Gambian rat, a shrew, and a sooty mangabey monkey.

From Science Magazine

After a kilometre or so, they passed a group of sooty mangabey monkeys lounging on logs.

From Science Magazine

What would we give today to have averted the pandemic of HIV/AIDS, a lentivirus that was traced to human contact with infected chimpanzees and sooty mangabeys in West Africa?

From Scientific American

The marked flies kept turning up around the mangabeys, even 12 days later when the group had moved more than 1 kilometer away, the team reports in Molecular Ecology.

From Science Magazine