中猴

zhōnghóu

noun

Meanings

1 "middle monkey" (Mesopithecus, a Late Miocene-Pliocene Old World monkey genus)

Characters

middle; central

Examples

HSK 7-9

化石表明中猴曾广泛分布于欧亚大陆。

Huàshí biǎomíng zhōnghóu céng guǎngfàn fēnbù yú Ōuyà dàlù.

Fossils show that Mesopithecus was once widespread across Eurasia.

HSK 7-9

这些中猴化石有助于研究灵长类演化。

Zhèxiē zhōnghóu huàshí yǒuzhùyú yánjiū língzhǎnglèi yǎnhuà.

These Mesopithecus fossils help the study of primate evolution.

Tips

usage

Not in general dictionaries as a common word. 中猴 corresponds to the paleontology calque for Mesopithecus ("middle monkey," a Miocene-Pliocene colobine). In news-corpus frequency lists it may also be a fragment of longer strings such as 中猴头菌 or 中猴桃. Read 中 as zhōng.

Stroke Order

中 zhōng

猴 hóu