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Rhesus   /rˈisəs/   Listen
Rhesus

noun
1.
Of southern Asia; used in medical research.  Synonyms: Macaca mulatta, rhesus monkey.



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"Rhesus" Quotes from Famous Books



... no watch, for their wives and children are safe at home." Then he told where all the different peoples who fought for Priam had their stations; but, said he, "if you want to steal horses, the best are those of Rhesus, King of the Thracians, who has only joined us to-night. He and his men are asleep at the furthest end of the line, and his horses are the best and greatest that ever I saw: tall, white as snow, and swift as the wind, ...
— Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities • Andrew Lang



Words linked to "Rhesus" :   rhesus monkey, macaque



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