Dictionary![]() ![]() New' World" mon'keyany of various arboreal anthropoid primates of the group or superfamily Platyrrhini, inhabiting forests from Mexico to Argentina and typically having a hairy face, widely separated nostrils, long arms, and a long, prehensile tail, and including the capuchin, douroucouli, howler monkey, marmoset, saki, spider monkey, squirrel monkey, titi, uakari, and woolly monkey. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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