cebid

Feb. 18th, 2019 07:57 am
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Back to WTF WWF, installment #4 -- this one focused on C words learned from solo mode of Words With Friends.


cebid (SEE-bid, SEH-bid) - n., any primate of the family Cebidae, comprising all New World monkeys except the marmosets and tamarins.


So all the capuchin and squirrel monkeys -- fourteen species all told. The name ultimately (after passing through scientific Latin) comes from ancient Greek kêbos, a long-tailed monkey, used as the genus name of some of the capuchins. A squirrel monkey type of cebid:

Cebid of the squirrel monkey persuasion
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---L.

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