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Barbary ape in American English
a tailless, apelike macaque monkey (Macaca sylvana) of N Africa and Gibraltar: the only surviving wild monkey in Europe
noun: a 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

Barbary ape in British English
noun: a tailless macaque, Macaca sylvana, that inhabits rocky cliffs and forests in NW Africa and Gibraltar: family Cercopithecidae, order Primates

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