A member of Cebidae, the family of New World monkeys including capuchins, squirrel monkeys, and similar species.
From modern Latin 'Cebidae' (the family name), derived from 'Cebus' (a genus of capuchin monkeys), possibly from Tupi or other South American language roots.
Cebid reveals how science borrows from Indigenous languages—the word Cebus itself probably came from Tupi-speaking people describing their local monkeys, and Linnaeus preserved it in scientific Latin.
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