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Webster 1913 Edition
Mangabey
Man′ga-bey
,Noun.
[So called by
Buffon
from Mangaby
, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.] (Zool.)
Any one of several African monkeys of the genus
Cercocebus
, as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus fuliginosus
), which is sooty black. [Also written
mangaby
.]