alouate

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English

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Noun

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alouate (plural alouates)

  1. Alternative form of alouatte
    • 1785, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, translated by William Smellie, Natural History, General and Particular, second edition, volume VIII, page 178:
      We have never seen the ouarine, but have the skin of an alouate, and he wise a dried foetus of the same species, in which the bone of the throat, the instrument of the great noise he makes, is already perceptible.

French

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Noun

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alouate m (plural alouates)

  1. howler monkey

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