spider monkey

noun

: any of a genus (Ateles) of New World monkeys with long slender limbs, the thumb absent or rudimentary, and a very long prehensile tail

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The Missouri monkey was found just days after law enforcement in California encountered a spider monkey while on a call. —

Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2025 California Highway Patrol officers pulled over a Rolls-Royce Ghost and found a spider monkey in a onesie and weed. —

Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025 Service spider monkey trained by a non-profit organization. —

Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 3 June 2024 The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden. —

Joan Oleck, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for spider monkey

Word History

First Known Use

1764, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of spider monkey was in 1764

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“Spider monkey.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spider%20monkey. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.

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