coaita

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English

Ateles paniscus

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Noun

coaita (plural coaitas)

  1. (dated) spider monkey
    • 1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, , 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, volume 1, page 230:
      The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country [] .

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