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Bar′bary ape′, 
  1. Zoology, Mammalsa tailless macaque, Macaca sylvanus, of mountain ranges in northwestern Africa, now greatly reduced in number: a small, managed colony of unknown origin is maintained on the Rock of Gibraltar.
  • 1870–75

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Barbary ape
  1. a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates
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