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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RHESUS MONKEY

New Latin, arbitrarily from Greek RhesosRhesus.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF RHESUS MONKEY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RHESUS MONKEY

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Rhesus monkey is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES RHESUS MONKEY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

rhesus monkey

Rhesus macaque

The rhesus macaque, is one of the best-known species of Old World monkeys. It is listed as Least Concern in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and its tolerance of a broad range of habitats. Native to South, Central and Southeast Asia, troops of Macaca mulatta inhabit a great variety of habitats from grasslands to arid and forested areas, but also close to human settlements.

Definition of rhesus monkey in the English dictionary

The definition of rhesus monkey in the dictionary is a macaque monkey, Macaca mulatta, of S Asia: used extensively in medical research.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE RHESUS MONKEY

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rheotrope
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rheotropism
Rhesus
rhesus baby
rhesus factor
rhesus negative
rhesus positive
Rhetic
rhetor
rhetoric
rhetorical
rhetorical question
rhetorically
rhetorician
rhetorize

WORDS THAT END LIKE RHESUS MONKEY

bonnet monkey
brass monkey
donkey
grease monkey
green monkey
howler monkey
leaf monkey
monkey
New World monkey
nodding donkey
Old World monkey
powder monkey
proboscis monkey
red-backed squirrel monkey
Sankey
spider monkey
squirrel monkey
talk the hind leg(s) off a donkey
turnkey
woolly spider monkey

Synonyms and antonyms of rhesus monkey in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «rhesus monkey» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF RHESUS MONKEY

Find out the translation of rhesus monkey to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of rhesus monkey from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «rhesus monkey» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

猕猴
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mono rhesus
570 millions of speakers

English

rhesus monkey
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

रीसस बंदर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

قرد هندي صغير
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

макака
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

macaco rhesus
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

রিসেস বানর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

singe rhésus
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Monyet rhesus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rhesusaffe
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

赤毛猿
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

붉은 털 원숭이
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Rhesus monyet
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

khỉ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ரேசஸ் குரங்கு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऋषस माकड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Rhesus maymun
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

scimmia rhesus
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

rezusy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

макака
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

maimuță rhesus
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

πίθηκος ρέζους
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

rhesusaap
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

rhesusapa
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rhesus ape
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of rhesus monkey

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «RHESUS MONKEY»

The term «rhesus monkey» is regularly used and occupies the 106.832 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about rhesus monkey

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RHESUS MONKEY»

Discover the use of rhesus monkey in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to rhesus monkey and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The rhesus monkey brain in stereotaxic coordinates
New in this edition * DVD with all drawings in Adobe Acrobat (r) pdf format as well as eps files of photographic plates * Inclusion in the DVD of 3D reconstructions of the diagrammatic atlas done by two major teams headed by Rolf Kotter and ...
George Paxinos, Xu-Feng Huang, Michael Petrides, 2008
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A Combined MRI and Histology Atlas of the Rhesus Monkey ...
This edition of the atlas is unlike anything else available as it includes the detailed cyto- and chemoarchitectonic delineations of the brain areas in all three planes of sections (horizontal, coronal, and sagittal) that are derived from ...
Kadharbatcha S. Saleem, Nikos K. Logothetis, 2012
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Facial Growth in the Rhesus Monkey: A Longitudinal ...
A Longitudinal Cephalometric Study Emet D. Schneiderman. opaque implants, Gans and Sarnat (1951) were able to describe short-term longitudinal growth at the zygomaticotemporal and zygomaticomaxillary sutures, as well as appositional ...
Emet D. Schneiderman, 2014
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Alternatives to animal use in research, testing, and education.
Rhesus monkey, African green monkey, Stumptail monkey, Patas monkey, Cynomolgus monkey Dental implants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pig-tailed monkey Diabetes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celebes black macaque Dietary fats ...
‎1986
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Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research, and Clinical ...
UNIQUE ASPECTS OF RHESUS MONKEY INFANT-MOTHER ATTACHMENT RELATIONSHIPS Is infant-mother attachment different from any or all other social relationships a young rhesus monkey (or, for that matter, a human infant) will ...
Jude Cassidy, Phillip R. Shaver, 1999
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New Scientist
Mol claims to be concerned about the biological status of the rhesus monkey in the wild, if for no other reason than to ensure that supply and thus profit remain steady. Yet, as is the case for nearly all species of primates in the wild, the future of ...
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Cerebral Cortex: Neurodegenerative and age-related changes ...
A study from our program examining the survival rates of 763 monkeys kept at two locations at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center (Tigges et al., 1988) showed that the maximum life span of the rhesus monkey extends into the fourth  ...
Alan Peters, John H. Morrison, Edward G. Jones, 1999
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Foundations in Social Neuroscience
Indeed, virtually all of the basic features of human infant behavior that Bowlby's attachment theory specifically ascribed to our evolutionary history could be observed in the normative mother-directed behaviors of rhesus monkey infants ...
John T. Cacioppo, 2002
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The Psychobiology of Affective Development
Laboratory studies have demonstrated that rhesus monkey infants display preferences for increasingly complex stimulus arrays as they grow older (e.g., Sackett, 1970), and presumably such emerging preferences contribute to a young ...
Nathan A. Fox, Richard J. Davidson, 1984
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Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association
the operation, but recovered rapidly. II. Small Macacus rhesus monkey. On examining him, he was thin, skin clear, without any signs of rash and in good health. The nodes were palpable. I removed one to obtain a culture. Subdurally, I gave ...
‎1914

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RHESUS MONKEY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term rhesus monkey is used in the context of the following news items.
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Anxious Brains Are Inherited, Study Finds
The research focused on rhesus monkeys. Like humans, some young rhesus monkeys have what's called an "anxious temperament." Expose them to a mildly ... «Live Science, Jul 15»
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Plight Of Baby Lab Monkeys Reaches Congress
Baby monkeys are routinely taken from their mothers between 12 hours and three ... Rhesus monkeys in the wild grow up inseparable from the mom for months; ... «NPR, Jan 15»
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Meet The Most Narcissistic Monkey On The Planet
Rhesus monkeys are remarkably humanlike. Since 2007, psychologists have known that the primates display nepotism and political maneuvering. «Vocativ, Jan 15»
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Rhesus monkeys in Puerto Rico remain vital to research
Humans share a large percentage of their genes with monkeys, which makes them vital for all kinds of research. And rhesus macaque monkeys (Macaca ... «UPI.com, Dec 14»
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India's Parliament is hiring men with a gift for mimicry to scare away …
... men imitating the call of langurs, a kind of monkey mostly found in the forests of ... menace, or the periodic anarchy unleashed by troops of rhesus monkeys. 1. «Quartz, Jul 14»
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Shock Tape and Sticks: Delhi Residents Battle Thousands of …
Big and menacing, he's able to scare off this city's 30,000 smaller, red-faced rhesus monkeys, to protect the local human population from their naughty and ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 14»
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Monkey caloric restriction study shows big benefit; contradicts earlier …
Rhesus monkeys 27-year-old Canto, on a restricted diet (left), and 29-year-old Owen, a control subject on an unrestricted diet (right), were among the subjects in ... «University of Wisconsin-Madison, Apr 14»
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Herpes-Infected Monkeys Invade Florida
Originally brought to the state as a tourist attraction, the wild Rhesus monkey may now ... Don't touch the monkeys if you're in Florida, they might have herpes. «TakePart, Sep 13»
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Human head transplant is "bad science," says neuroscientist
Dr. Jerry Silver can still picture the 1970 day when he stood in the lab as his colleague, Dr. Robert White, transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey onto the ... «CBS News, Jul 13»
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Monkeys in Space: A Brief Spaceflight History
Another rhesus monkey named Albert II, for example, became the first primate to reach space, achieving an altitude of 83 miles (134 km) aboard another V2 in ... «Space.com, Jan 13»

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