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macaco — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ape noun A large tailless primate such as a gorilla, chimpanzee, or orangutan.
  • booger noun A piece of dried mucus from inside the nose (informal).
  • jack noun A mechanical device used to lift something heavy off the ground, especially to raise a car to change a tyre.
  • monkey noun A small to medium-sized primate, typically with a tail, distinct from apes.

Senses

macaco is used for these senses in English:

  • ape A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
  • ape (derogatory) An uncivilized person.
  • booger (US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.
  • jack A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]
  • macaque Any of a group of Old World monkeys of the genus Macaca.
  • monkey (loosely, sometimes, _, proscribed) Any simian primate other than hominids, any monkey or ape.

ape — full definition

  1. noun A large tailless primate such as a gorilla, chimpanzee, or orangutan.
  2. verb To copy or imitate someone or something, often badly.

booger — full definition

  1. noun A piece of dried mucus from inside the nose (informal).
  2. noun A difficult or annoying thing or situation (US informal).

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