egret

From Middle English, from Anglo-Norman egret, aigrette (“egret”), from Old Occitan aigreta, diminutive of aigron (“heron”), from Medieval Latin hairo, from Frankish *haigro (“heron”). Cognate with Old High German heigaro (“heron”), Old English hrāgra (“heron”). Doublet of aigrette. More at heron.

Macaca fascicularis
Macaca fascicularis#Translingual

(obsolete) The crab-eating macaque (Macaca fascicularis)


rhesus

From New Latin rhēsus, arbitrary formation from Latin Rhēsus, from Ancient Greek Ῥῆσος (Rhêsos), mythical Thracian king.


macaco

From French mococo, probably ultimately from Malagasy maka, maki (“lemur”).
Wikispecies

(obsolete) Any of several species of lemur, including the white-headed lemur, ruffed lemur, and ring-tailed lemur.


toque

From Middle French toque (“toque”), from Arabic طَاقِيَّة (ṭāqiyya).

A variety of bonnet monkey; toque macaque, Macaca sinica.

(historical) An African nominal money of account, equal to 40 cowries.


toque

1871. Assimilated from Canadian French tuque. Likely to be a hypercorrection from the time that toque was already in the dictionaries when they did not yet list tuque as a kind of hat. The French word tuque for hat is itself not strictly a deformation of French toque: it is also related to other meanings of tuque and to its former name bonnet à la turque (lit. Turkish-style bunnet/cap).

Such is the demented nature of the universe that I was too weak to properly respond to my being hit on by carloads of Betties and Veronicas—all except for the cheeky Cheryl Anderson who gave me ‘manual release’ the day I lost my eye-brows, followed by a flood of tears and the snapping of Polaroids in which I wear a knit toque. Gush gush.

1998, Douglas Coupland, chapter 1, in Girlfriend in a Coma:

It was like entering the Millennial id. Craft beer and cucumber water poured from kitchen taps. Laptoppers in jeans and toques clacked along to MGMT in the wood-paneled common area.

2018 March, Laura Bliss, “How WeWork Has Perfectly Captured the Millennial Id”, in The Atlantic:

(Canada) A knitted hat, usually conical but of varying shape, often woollen, and sometimes topped by a pom-pom or tassel.


macaque

Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco.

They are able to recall past images and apply them to current problem solving. In other words, macaques employ memory in order to survive.

2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 43:

Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae, especially genus Macaca.


maha

The natives, who designate the latter as the Maha, or Great Wanderu, to distinguish it from the Kala, or Black one […]

1896, Richard Lydekker, A Geographical History of Mammals:

(archaic) A kind of monkey; the wanderoo.


macaca

From the genus name Macaca, from Portuguese macaca, feminine of macaco (“monkey”). Doublet of macaque and macaco.

This process of the temporal bone varies in size, and may occur on one or both sides. A similar formation is common among gorillas, chimpanzees, macacas, magots (Inuus), and baboons.* It is less frequent among orangs,† gibbons, marmosets, and American species (howlers, hooded apes, etc.).

1886, Robert Hartmann, Anthropoid Apes (The International Scientific Series; 52), New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 111:

(dated) Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca; a macaque.


rhesus monkey

Macaca mulatta
Macaca mulatta#Translingual


rhesus macaque

A monkey, Macaca mulatta, common throughout southern Asia, that is extensively used for medical research.


bruh

Vietnamese: bủh (eye dialect)

PIE word
 *bʰréh₂tēr
A shortening of brother from African-American Vernacular English

Person 1: I poured canola oil into my car engine!

Person 2: Bruh.

Person 1: I think the word partisan derives from how they parted their hair.

Person 2: Bruh.

(slang) Expressing a feeling that something is an exceptionally stupid or inappropriate thing to think or to do.


Barbary ape

Macaca sylvanus
Macaca sylvanus#Translingual

A tailless monkey, Macaca sylvanus, found on Gibraltar and in parts of north Africa


cynomolgus

From Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) + ἀμέλγω (amélgō, “to milk”). Apparently from a word coined by Aristophanes of Byzantium for a race of humans with long hair and beards who hunted with dogs and, according to Aristophanes, milked them. (See Crab-eating macaque on Wikipedia.Wikipedia).

pedia

[…]but no «mouse-virulent» virus could be recovered on passage in other mice although titration in cynomolgus renal epithelial cells showed that virus replication had occurred.

1953, “Atti del VI Congresso Internazionale di Microbiologia”, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Microbiology, volume 3, page 157:

1978, B. J. Catley, 5: Glycoproteins, Glycopeptides, and Animal Polysaccharides, J. S. Brimacombe (editor), Carbohydrate Chemistry, Volume 10, The Chemical Society, page 305,
Similarities also exist between the antigenic properties of the β₁-glycoproteins obtained from chimpanzees, rhesus monkeys, cynomolguses, and baboons.

2019, Kira Jane Buxton, Hollow Kingdom, Hachette UK (Headline Publishing Group), unnumbered page,
MoFos never gave up on the belief that they could land on the moon, and, by thunder, they did it! (After sensibly sending up a few test subjects including cats, tortoises, mice, mealworms, a rabbit, chimpanzees, rhesus macaques, squirrel monkeys, cynomolguses and pig-tailed monkeys, a boatload of dogs, and some fruit flies.

(often attributive) A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis), native to Asia, that feeds on shellfish.


magot

The magot differs from the ape by having a long muzzle and large canine teeth; and from the baboon by having no actual tail; though it has an exuberance of skin which bears that appearance.

1800, The Lady's Magazine Or Entertaining Companion for the Fair Sex, volume 31, page 16:

(archaic) The Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus) native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and Morocco along with a small population of uncertain origin in Gibraltar.


wanderoo

From Sinhalese වඳුරා (waⁿdurā, “monkey”), වඳුරෝ (waⁿdurō, “monkeys”).

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus)


Barbary macaque

en-noun

Barbary macaque (plural Barbary macaques)

Macaca sylvanus, an Old World monkey found in Gibraltar and the Atlas Mountains in Algeria and Morocco.


zati

Macaca radiata, a macaque native to India and Sri Lanka with a hairstyle similar to a centre parting.


moor macaque

Macaca maura, a macaque, endemic to Sulawesi, with brown to black body fur, a pale rump patch, and pink bare skin on the rump.


bonnet monkey

Macaca radiata, a macaque endemic to southern India.


long-tailed macaque

long-tailed macaque (plural long-tailed macaques)

A primate of the species Macaca fascicularis, native to Southeast Asia.


southern pig-tailed macaque

southern pig-tailed macaque (plural southern pig-tailed macaques)

Macaca nemestrina
Macaca nemestrina#Translingual

An Old World monkey of the species Macaca nemestrina, native to Borneo, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula.


pigtail macaque

pigtail macaque (plural pigtail macaques)

southern pig-tailed macaque
southern pig-tailed macaque

Any of two closely related SE Asian species of macaque:

A southern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina);

A northern pig-tailed macaque (Macaca leonina).


Japanese macaque

Japanese macaque (plural Japanese macaques)

Japanese macaques have long red faces and eyes that are close-set like those of George W. Bush.

2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 152:

Macaca fuscata
Macaca fuscata#Translingual

A species of macaque, Macaca fuscata, native to Japan.


crab-eating macaque

crab-eating macaque (plural crab-eating macaques)


boonder

Obsolete form of bandar (“rhesus macaque”).


lion-tailed macaque

lion-tailed macaque (plural lion-tailed macaques)


Celebes crested macaque

Celebes crested macaque (plural Celebes crested macaques)

Macaca nigra, an Old World monkey found on Sulawesi and neighbouring islands.


stump-tailed macaque

stump-tailed macaque (plural stump-tailed macaques)

Macaca arctoides, a species of macaque that is native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.