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Cercopithecus
(gcide) | Cercopithecus \Cercopithecus\ n.
type genus of the Cercopithecidae, consisting of one genus
of guenons.
Syn: genus Cercopithecus.
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Cercopithecus callitrichus
(gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
Grow.]
1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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To look so green and pale. --Shak.
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3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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As valid against such an old and beneficent
government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
--Burke.
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4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
Watts.
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6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
judgment.
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I might be angry with the officious zeal which
supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
gray hairs. --Sir W.
Scott.
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7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
enviroment; -- of political parties and political
philosophies; as, the European green parties.
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Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
United States; -- called also cat brier.
Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
named joe-rocker.
Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
crop, etc.
Green diallage. (Min.)
(a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
(b) Smaragdite.
Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
(Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
-- called also dragon root.
Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
Green ebony.
(a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
work, and in dyeing.
(b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
to which the color of the flame is due.
Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
the West Indies and in South America, used for
shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
the Colubrina ferruginosa.
Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
-- called also green sloke.
Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
See Greengill.
Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
Indies early in the last century, and has become very
abundant there.
Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
of platinum.
Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
vessel's deck.
Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
(Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
bright green in color.
Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
Turtle.
Green vitriol.
(a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
(b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
of iron}.
Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
yet baked.
Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
(Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
[1913 Webster]Guenon \Guenon"\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
Any of several long-tailed arboreal African monkeys, of the
genera Cercopithecus and Erythrocebus (formerly
classified as Cercocebus), such as as the green monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus) and grivet ({Cercopithecus
griseo-viridis}).
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Cercopithecus cephus
(gcide) | Mustache \Mus*tache"\ (m[u^]s*t[.a]sh"; 277), n.; pl.
Mustaches. [Written also moustache.] [F. moustache, It.
mostaccio visage, mostacchio mustache, fr. Gr. my`stax upper
lip and the beard upon it; cf. ma`stax mouth: cf. Sp.
mostacho.]
1. That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair
left growing above the mouth.
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2. (Zool.) A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It
has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the
nose.
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3. (Zool.) Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the
head, beneath the eye of a bird.
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4. A stain or discoloration on the upper lip of a person; as,
wearing a milk mustache. [informal]
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Cercopithecus cynosurus
(gcide) | Malbrouck \Mal"brouck\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).
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Cercopithecus Diana
(gcide) | Diana \Di*a"na\, n. [L. Diana.] (Myth.)
The daughter of Jupiter and Latona; a virgin goddess who
presided over hunting, chastity, and marriage; -- identified
with the Greek goddess Artemis.
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And chaste Diana haunts the forest shade. --Pope.
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Diana monkey (Zool.), a handsome, white-bearded monkey of
West Africa (Cercopithecus Diana).
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Cercopithecus griseo-viridis
(gcide) | Grivet \Griv"et\ (gr[i^]v"[e^]t), n. [Cf. F. grivet.] (Zool.)
A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia ({Cercopithecus
griseo-viridis}), having the upper parts dull green, the
lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was
known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota.
[1913 Webster]Guenon \Guenon"\, n. [F.] (Zool.)
Any of several long-tailed arboreal African monkeys, of the
genera Cercopithecus and Erythrocebus (formerly
classified as Cercocebus), such as as the green monkey
(Cercopithecus callitrichus) and grivet ({Cercopithecus
griseo-viridis}).
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Cercopithecus Lelandii
(gcide) | Vervet \Ver"vet\, n. (Zool.)
A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus syn.
Cercopithecus Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green,
finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish
white.
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Cercopithecus mona
(gcide) | Mona \Mo"na\, n. [CF. Sp. & Pg. mona, fem. of mono a monkey,
ape.] (Zool.)
A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey
(Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot
of white on the haunches.
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Cercopithecus pluto
(gcide) | Pluto \Plu"to\ (pl[=u]"t[-o]), pr. n. [L., fr. Gr. Plou`twn.]
1. (Class. Myth.) The son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of
Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower
World.
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2. The ninth planet of the Solar System, the smallest (5700
km radius) and most distant from the sun. The suggestion
has been made that it more closely resembles a large close
comet than a planet. Its orbit has an eccentricity of
0.248, larger than that of any other planet; it varies
from 4.44 to 7.37 billion km distance from the sun.
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Pluto is an oddball among its eight sister planets.
It's the smallest in both size and mass, and has the
most elliptical orbit. It moves in a plane tilted
markedly away from the other planets' orbits.
Moreover, Pluto is the only planet made almost
entirely of ice. --Ron Cohen
(Science News,
Feb. 27, 1999,
p. 139)
Pluto monkey (Zool.), a long-tailed African monkey
(Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general
color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is
white.
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Cercopithecus pygerythrus
(gcide) | Vervet \Ver"vet\, n. (Zool.)
A South African monkey (Cercopithecus pygerythrus syn.
Cercopithecus Lelandii). The upper parts are grayish green,
finely specked with black. The cheeks and belly are reddish
white.
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Cercopithecus ruber
(gcide) | Patas \Pa*tas"\, n. (Zool.)
A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber);
the red monkey.
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Cercopithecus talapoin
(gcide) | Talapoin \Tal"a*poin\ (t[a^]l"[.a]*poin), n. (Zool.)
A small African monkey (Cercopithecus talapoin or
Miopithecus talapoin) -- called also melarhine.
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cercopithecus aethiops
(wn) | Cercopithecus aethiops
n 1: white and olive green East African monkey with long white
tufts of hair beside the face [syn: grivet,
Cercopithecus aethiops] |
cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus
(wn) | Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus
n 1: South African monkey with black face and hands [syn:
vervet, vervet monkey, {Cercopithecus aethiops
pygerythrus}] |
cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus
(wn) | Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus
n 1: common savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow
tail [syn: green monkey, African green monkey,
Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus] |
cercopithecus talapoin
(wn) | Cercopithecus talapoin
n 1: smallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African
forests [syn: talapoin, Cercopithecus talapoin] |
genus cercopithecus
(wn) | genus Cercopithecus
n 1: type genus of the Cercopithecidae: guenons [syn:
Cercopithecus, genus Cercopithecus] |
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