Mangaby

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mangabey \Man"ga*bey\, n. [So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in
     Madagascar, where he erroneously supposed them be native.]
     (Zool.)
     Any one of several African monkeys of the genus {Cercocebus},
     as the sooty mangabey ({Cercocebus fuliginosus}), which is
     sooty black. [Also written {mangaby}.]


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