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Macaque vs. Monkey — What's the Difference?

Macaque vs. Monkey — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Macaque and Monkey

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Macaque

The macaques ( or ) constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and (in one instance) Gibraltar.

Monkey

Monkey is a common name that may refer to certain groups or species of simian mammals of infraorder Simiiformes. The term is applied descriptively to groups of primates, such as families of New World monkeys and Old World monkeys.

Macaque

Any of a diverse group of monkeys of the genus Macaca of Asia, Gibraltar, and northern Africa, and including the Barbary ape and the rhesus monkey.

Monkey

Any of various tailed primates of the suborder Anthropoidea, including the macaques, baboons, capuchins, and marmosets, and excluding the apes.

Macaque

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

A nonhuman ape. Not in scientific use.

Macaque

Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa; as, Macaca maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

Monkey

One who behaves in a way suggestive of a monkey, as a mischievous child or a mimic.

Macaque

Short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa

Monkey

The iron block of a pile driver.

Monkey

(Slang) A person who is mocked, duped, or made to appear a fool
They made a monkey out of him.

Monkey

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person with dark skin.

Monkey

To play, fiddle, trifle, or tamper with something
Who was monkeying with my phone?.

Monkey

To behave in a mischievous or apish manner
Stop monkeying around!.

Monkey

To imitate or mimic; ape.

Monkey

(properly) A member of the clade Simiiformes other than those in the clade Hominoidea containing humans and apes, generally (but not universally) distinguished by small size, tails, and cheek pouches.
He had been visiting an area zoo when a monkey swung from its tree perch, swiped his glasses and hurled them into a hippo hole.

Monkey

Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.
Chimpanzees are known to form bands to hunt and kill other monkeys.

Monkey

A human considered to resemble monkeys in some way, including:

Monkey

A naughty or mischievous person, especially a child.
Stop misbehaving, you cheeky little monkey!

Monkey

(slang) The person in the motorcycle sidecar in sidecar racing.

Monkey

(pejorative) idiot: a person of minimal intelligence.

Monkey

(pejorative) uggo: an unattractive person, especially one whose face supposedly resembles a monkey's.

Monkey

Synonym of puppet: a person dancing to another's tune, a person controlled or directed by another.
No, no, no, not you. I want to talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey.

Monkey

A menial employee who does a repetitive job supposedly requiring minimal intelligence.
Code monkey... grease monkey... phone monkey... powder monkey...

Monkey

A black, a black person.

Monkey

(historical) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Monkey

The vessel in which a mess receives its full allowance of grog.

Monkey

The weight of a pile driver or drop hammer.

Monkey

A fluid consisting of hydrochloric acid and zinc, used in the process of soldering.

Monkey

(slang) five hundred, especially (British) 500 pounds sterling or 500 dollars.

Monkey

(blackjack) face card.

Monkey

(slang) A person's temper, said to be "up" when they are angry.

Monkey

(slang) A drug habit; an addiction; a compulsion.
Everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey.

Monkey

(dance) A dance popularized by Major Lance in 1963, now usually only its upper-body dance move involving exaggerated drumming motions.

Monkey

To meddle; to mess (with).
Please don't monkey with the controls if you don't know what you're doing.

Monkey

(transitive) To mimic; to ape.

Monkey

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

Monkey

A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her.

Monkey

The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

Monkey

A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Monkey

To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.

Monkey

Any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)

Monkey

One who is playfully mischievous

Monkey

Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly;
Someone tampered with the documents on my desk
The reporter fiddle with the facts

Monkey

Do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly;
The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house

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