baboon-monkey

noun

baboon-monkey

noun
1

Obsolete The Celebes crested macaque, Macaca nigra.

  • A large black baboon-monkey (Cynopithecus nigrescens) is abundant in some parts of the forest. This animal has bare red callosities, and a rudimentary tail about an inch long--a mere fleshy tubercle, which may be very easily overlooked.1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 54:

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