moor monkey

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moor monkey - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[=o]r moor, morass; akin to D.
     moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere.
     See Mere a lake.]
     1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and
        having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and
        abounding in peat; a heath.
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              In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.
                                                    --Carew.
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     2. A game preserve consisting of moorland.
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     Moor buzzard (Zool.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.]
  
     Moor coal (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite.
  
     Moor cock (Zool.), the male of the moor fowl or red
        grouse of Europe.
  
     Moor coot. (Zool.) See Gallinule.
  
     Moor game. (Zool.) Same as Moor fowl.
  
     Moor grass (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass (Sesleria  caerulea
        ), found in mountain pastures of Europe.
  
     Moor hawk (Zool.), the marsh harrier.
  
     Moor hen. (Zool.)
        (a) The female of the moor fowl.
        (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See
            Gallinule.
        (c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis).
  
     Moor monkey (Zool.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus  maurus
        ).
  
     Moor titling (Zool.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola  rubicola
        ).
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