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monkeykind en · NOUN

Etymology

From monkey + -kind.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) All monkeys, collectively.
    • Mankind at the lowest point where monkey-kind is at its highest. 1850, Robert Southey, Southey's Common-place Book - Volume 3, page 809:
    • What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind. 2005, Stephen J. Dubner, Steven D. Levitt, Monkey Business:
    • There is no instance on record where a baboon ever evolved into a human being, and science in attempting to unearth a "missing link" which it is claimed will connect mankind with monkeykind, is like a blind man hunting through a haystack to find a needle which isn't there. 1882, F.D. Richards (publisher), The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star - Volume 44, page 298: