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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) grivet
an Ethiopian guenon, Cercopithecus aethiops, with a gray body and black face.

Etymology: (1855–60; orig. uncert.)

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1. (noun) grivet, Cercopithecus aethiops
white and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face

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1. (noun) Grivet
a monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the hands, ears, and face black. It was known to the ancient Egyptians. Called also tota

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