quata

See also: Quatá

English

Noun

quata (plural quatas)

1. Archaic form of coiata.
   • 1833, George Long, The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 2, page 547:

     Acosta, in his History of the West Indies, relates the following anecdote of a quata which belonged to the Governor of Carthagena […]

   • 1837, The New Monthly Magazine, page 366:

     To be sure the Quatas will, when they meet with a learned traveller, or any other strange animal, descend to the lower branches of their trees, to examine the phenomenon […]

   • 1876, Charles Barrington Brown, Canoe and camp life in British Guiana:

     The quatas, or large black spider monkeys, spent a good deal of their time in trying to open them by beating them against the branches of trees, or on hard logs upon the ground […]