Noun: macaque
| Singular | macaque |
| Plural | macaques |
Sample Sentences
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They are able to recall past images and apply them to current problem solving. In other words, macaques employ memory in order to survive. [2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 43:]
Nouns inflected like macaque
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from French macaque, from Portuguese macaco, of uncertain origin (see macaco for more). Doublet of macaco. See: Portuguese Nouns '
macaco'.