hare-lipped monkey

English

Noun

hare-lipped monkey (plural hare-lipped monkeys)

  1. (dated) crab-eating macaque
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 294:
      They are the common hare-lipped monkey (Macacus cynomolgus), which is found all over the western islands of the Archipelago, and may have been introduced by natives, who often carry it about captive.
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