Usually means: Monkey species used in research.
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  1. rhesus: Merriam-Webster
  2. rhesus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. Rhesus: Collins English Dictionary
  4. rhesus: Vocabulary.com
  5. Rhesus, rhesus: Wordnik
  6. rhesus: Wiktionary
  7. rhesus: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. rhesus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. rhesus: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rhesus: Dictionary.com
  11. rhesus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Rhesus (disambiguation), Rhesus (play), Rhesus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Rhesus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. rhesus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. rhesus: Rhymezone
  16. Rhesus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. rhesus: FreeDictionary.org
  18. rhesus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. rhesus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rhesus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rhesus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (rhesus)

noun:  A macaque monkey native to southern and southeastern Asia; Macaca mulatta.
noun:  (medicine, attributive, also without cap.) Denotes a system for categorising human blood types based on the presence or absence of various antigens, especially Rhesus factor D.
noun:  (medicine) Alternative form of Rhesus. [(medicine, attributive, also without cap.) Denotes a system for categorising human blood types based on the presence or absence of various antigens, especially Rhesus factor D.]

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