white-faced
adjective
1
: having the face white in whole or in part
—used especially of an animal otherwise dark in color
2
: having a wan pale face
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Housed in five separate cages, the deceased monkeys included the De Brazza species as well as one common squirrel monkey, cotton-top tamarins and white-faced sakis.
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Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
The animals, a De Brazza’s monkey, one common squirrel monkey, three cotton-top tamarins and three white-faced sakis, were found dead at the city’s Zoological and Botanical Gardens (HKZBG) on Sunday, Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department said in a statement.
—Reuters, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
This is a truly remote wilderness and a great place to spot rare mammals such as white-faced capuchins, margays, ocelots, and tapirs, an animal related to the rhinoceros species.
—Lily Bunker, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Flocks of white-faced ibises flew overhead, their long beaks and legs stretched elegantly against the sky.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
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Reuters, CNN, 21 Oct. 2024
The animals, a De Brazza’s monkey, one common squirrel monkey, three cotton-top tamarins and three white-faced sakis, were found dead at the city’s Zoological and Botanical Gardens (HKZBG) on Sunday, Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department said in a statement.
—Reuters, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
This is a truly remote wilderness and a great place to spot rare mammals such as white-faced capuchins, margays, ocelots, and tapirs, an animal related to the rhinoceros species.
—Lily Bunker, Travel + Leisure, 21 Sep. 2024
Decades on, Fleur suddenly reemerges — all white-faced and disoriented but not a day older — to enter a newspaper office and ask to place an ad looking for Chen-Pang.
—Nathan Smith, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2024
The living animals seized included sacred ibises, white-faced capuchins, tortoises and Burmese pythons, while the 28 dead animals included an alligator, a mandrill and a green-winged macaw, according to a search warrant.
—Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
Flocks of white-faced ibises flew overhead, their long beaks and legs stretched elegantly against the sky.
—Brooke Jarvis, New York Times, 31 May 2023
The study, published today in Science Advances, adds to another recent finding that Brazilian white-faced capuchin monkeys also produce stone flakes.
—Byvirginia Morell, science.org, 10 Mar. 2023
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“White-faced.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white-faced. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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