Spider Monkey (Noun)
Meaning
Arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Spider monkeys are known to leap great distances through the trees with their long prehensile tails acting as a counterbalance.
- In the Costa Rican jungle, we caught sight of a spider monkey swinging effortlessly from branch to branch.
- Spider monkeys are highly intelligent creatures, using their tails and agility to gather food and avoid predators in their arboreal habitat.
- During our visit to the primate sanctuary, we were amazed by the agility of the spider monkeys playing in the treetops.
- In the tropical rainforests of Central America, spider monkeys are a common sight, darting from tree to tree with incredible speed.