Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
| angwantibo | a small lemuroid mammal of Africa. [W. African angwan, cat]. |
| ape | an anthropoid primate; (verb) to imitate. |
| babacoote | a large lemur. [Malagasy babakoto lit. 'father-child'.] |
| baboon | a large monkey of various species, with long muzzle and dog-like tusks. |
| baboonish | like a baboon. |
| baboonery | baboonish behaviour. |
| bandar | a rhesus monkey. |
| bandari | a female monkey. |
| bobbejaan | (S. African) a baboon. |
| bonobo | a chimpanzee-like primate. |
| bushbaby | a small African tree-living primate with large eyes. |
| capuchin | a S. American monkey with thick hair like a monk's cowl. |
| catarhine | an Old World monkey, having a narrow partition between the nostrils. |
| cebid ceboid | one of a family of monkeys, the capuchins. |
| chacma | a large species of African baboon, aka ursine baboon. |
| chimp | a chimpanzee. |
| chimpanzee | an intelligent anthropoid ape inhabiting the tropical central African forests. |
| coaita | the native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles. |
| colobid | a genus of monkey > COLOBIDS. |
| colobus | a genus of monkey > COLOBI. |
| colugo | a flying lemur > COLUGOS. |
| cynomolgus | a type of macaque > CYNOMOLGI. |
| douc | a kind of monkey, remarkable for its varied and brilliant colors, native to Cochin China. |
| douroucouli durukuli | a small, nocturnal, South American monkey. |
| drill | a W. African baboon, smaller than a mandrill. |
| entellus | an East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey regarded as sacred by the natives, remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. |
| galago | a kind of African lemur. [Wolof golokh, monkey]. Pl. GALAGOS. |
| gelada | a kind of baboon, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male. [Arabic qilada, collar]. |
| gibbon | any of various small long-armed tailless arboreal apes of the SE Asian genus Hylobates. |
| gorilla | a large anthropoid ape. |
| grivet | a long-tailed African monkey. |
| guenon | a kind of long-legged African monkey. |
| guereza | a large, long-haired, black-and-white African monkey, with a bushy tail. |
| hamadryas | a type of baboon. |
| hanuman | an E. Indian monkey with a bristly face. |
| hominoid | relating to the superfamily Hominoidea, comprising man and modern apes and their extinct ancestors; (noun) a member of this family. |
| hoolock | a small black gibbon found in the mountains of Assam. |
| howler | a S American monkey, with prodigious power of voice. |
| hylobate | any species of the genus Hylobates; a gibbon, or long-armed ape. |
| indri indris | a short-tailed lemur of Madagascar. [Malagasy indry! lo! behold!, or indry izy! there he is!, mistaken for the name of the animal, which in Malagasy is babakoto (see BABACOOTE)]. |
| jacchus | a S. American marmoset > JACCHUSES. [L. Iacchus]. |
| jocko | a chimpanzee > JOCKOS. [Bantu còkó, a kind of monkey]. |
| kipunji | a long-tailed Tanzanian monkey with a crest of erect hair. |
| langur | a long-tailed Asian monkey. |
| lemur | one of a group of long-tailed mammals allied to the monkeys, living in Madagascar > LEMURS. [Also an ancient Roman ghost of the dead > LEMURES]. |
| lemurlike | like a lemur. |
| lemuroid | like a lemur; (noun) a member of the lemur family. |
| lesula | a genus of Congolese monkey. |
| loris | any one of several species of small lemurs of the genus Stenops. |
| macaco | any one of several species of lemurs > MACACOS. |
| macaque | a kind of monkey. [Fr. f. Port. macaco f. Bantu makaku some monkeys, f. ma numerical sign + kaku monkey]. |
| magot | the Barbary ape; also, a small grotesque figure in Chinese art. |
| malmag | the TARSIER or spectral lemur. [Philippine word]. |
| mandrill | a large W. African forest baboon, the adult of which has a bright red and blue face and blue buttocks. |
| mangabey mangaby | an Equatorial African monkey with a long tail and muzzle. |
| marmoset | a small monkey. [OFr. marmouser, to murmur]. |
| mico | the black-tailed marmoset > MICOS. |
| mona | a kind of West African monkey. |
| monkey | any mammal of the Primates except man and (usu) the anthropoid apes; (verb) to mimic. |
| mono | the black howler monkey of Central America > MONOS. |
| nagapie | the bush-baby or nocturnal lemur. [Dutch 'night ape']. |
| orang ourang orangutan | the orang-utan. [Malay orang, man]. |
| ouakari uakari | a short-tailed, long-haired monkey. |
| ouistiti wistiti | a marmoset. |
| pithecoid | any of the higher or anthropoid apes > PITHECOIDS. |
| pongid | relating to a PONGO, any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang. |
| pongo | any large ape; especially, the chimpanzee and the orang-outang > PONGOES or PONGOS. |
| potto | a nocturnal mammal of the Lemur family, found in West Africa > POTTOS. |
| prosimian | a primate of the suborder Prosimii, that includes the LEMUR, LORIS and TARSIER. |
| puggie puggy | (Scots) a monkey; (adj.) monkey-like > PUGGIER, PUGGIEST. |
| pugginess | the state of being PUGGY, monkey-like. |
| puggish | like a monkey; snub-nosed. |
| quadruman quadrumane | a former name for primates other than man. |
| rhesus | a kind of monkey. |
| sagoin sagouin saguin | a kind of monkey, aka TITI. |
| sai | the capuchin monkey. [Fr. saï f. Port. f. Tupi sai]. |
| saimiri | a squirrel monkey. [Port. saimirim, f. Tupi sai, capuchin monkey, + mir, small.] |
| sajou sapajou | any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. [Ult. from Tupi sai, capuchin monkey + guassú large]. |
| siamang | a large black gibbon, native to Sumatra. |
| sifaka | a kind of lemur, long-tailed and black and white, native to Madagascar. |
| silverback | an older male gorilla with grey hair on its back and flanks. |
| simial simioid simious | apelike. |
| simian | apelike; (noun) a member of the ape family. |
| talapoin | a small green West African guenon monkey; a title of respect for a Buddhist monk. |
| tamarin | a genus of small S. American monkeys. [Fr. from Carib]. |
| tarsier | a kind of lemur native to Madagascar. |
| titi | a small S. American monkey. |
| vervet | a small, long-tailed African monkey. |
| wanderoo | a long-tailed monkey, native to the Malabar coast of India. |
| zati | the bonnet-monkey. |