coaita
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coaita (plural coaitas)
- (dated) spider monkey
- 1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338,
- All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita.
- 1866, The Boys' Journal, volume 6, page 36:
- Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.
- 1896, Henry Ogg Forbes, A Hand-book to the Primates[1], volume 1, page 230:
- The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country […] .
- 1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338,
References[edit]
- “coaita”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.