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48 word matches found for '猿' using reading 'ざる'
noun
small monkey; infant monkey
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noun
loris (esp. a slow loris)  (see also: ロリス)
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noun
male monkey  (see also: )
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noun
New World monkey (any monkey of infraorder Platyrrhini)
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noun
say-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)  (see also: 三猿)
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noun
1. mountain monkey; wild monkey
2. mountain dweller; bumpkin; boor  (derogatory)
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noun
hear-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)  (see also: 三猿)
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noun
anthropoid ape; anthropoid; pongid; ape  (see also: 類人猿; often written with kana only)
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noun
Old World monkey (any monkey of family Cercopithecidae)  (see also: 尾長猿; obscure term)
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noun
green monkey (Chlorocebus sabaeus, sometimes considered to be a subspecies of Chlorocebus aethiops)  (see also: サバンナモンキー)
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noun
earthenware toy portraying a monkey sitting on top of a deer (often a bell)
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noun
Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis); Formosan rock monkey; Taiwanese macaque  (often written with kana only)
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noun
aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis)  (see also: アイアイ; often written with kana only)
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noun
foolish monkey
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noun
clay monkey figure
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noun
useless person; good-for-nothing  (derogatory)
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noun
any monkey of family Cebidae (esp. the capuchin monkeys of genus Cebus, but also including marmosets, tamarins and squirrel monkeys)  (often written with kana only)
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Most common form: ニホンザル
noun
Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
pig-tailed macaque (Macaca nemestrina)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
common marmoset (Callithrix (Callithrix) jacchus)  (see also: マーモセット; often written with kana only; obscure term)
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noun
brown capuchin; tufted capuchin (Cebus apella)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
woolly monkey (any New World monkey of genus Lagothrix)  (see also: ウーリーモンキー; often written with kana only; obscure term)
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noun
see-not monkey (one of the three wise monkeys)  (see also: 三猿)
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noun
spider monkey  (often written with kana only)
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noun
Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra); crested black macaque; Sulawesi crested macaque; black ape  (often written with kana only)
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noun
black lemur (Eulemur macaco)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
lemur  (often written with kana only)
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noun
proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus); long-nosed monkey  (often written with kana only)
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Most common form: テナガザル
noun
gibbon (any small, long-armed ape of family Hylobatidae)  (often written with kana only)
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noun
rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta); rhesus macaque  (often written with kana only)
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