macaque
noun/məˈkæk/, /məˈkɑːk/
/məˈkæk/, /məˈkɑːk/
- a type of monkey that lives in Africa and AsiaWord Originlate 17th cent.: via French and Portuguese; based on the Bantu morpheme ma (denoting a plural) + kaku ‘monkey’.
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