vervet

英 ['vɜːvɪt] 美 ['vɝvɛt]
  • n. 长尾黑颚猴(东南非洲产之一种小猴)

英文词源


vervet (n.)
South African monkey, 1884, from French (Cuvier), of unknown origin, perhaps short for vert grivet, literally "a green grivet," indicating it was greener than the kind of monkey known as a grivet (itself a name of unknown origin). "Vervets are among the monkeys carried about by organ-grinders" [Century Dictionary].

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