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A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.

Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidæ. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.

A young monk who was excused from performing a portion of a monk's duties. Shipley.

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.

A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.

A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

e of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

A monk.

he European species. See Gallinule. (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). -- Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

A small tufted monkey.

A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust.

led also carrot fly. -- Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] McElrath. -- Negro monkey (Zoöl.), the moor monkey.

inating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.

One who enters a religious house, whether of monks or nuns, as a probationist. Shipley. No poore cloisterer, nor no novys. Chaucer.

A nocturnal South American monkey (Callithrix discolor), noted for its agility; -- called also ventriloquist monkey.

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.