Mangabey /(?)/

Man·ga·bey

Mangabey

n.

[So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.]

Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (Cercocebus fuliginosus), which is sooty black. (Zool.)

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