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Noun
macaco parauacu m (plural macacos parauacu)
- Pithecia pithecia chrysocephala (a subspecies of the white-faced saki)
1914, João Capistrano de Abreu, Rã-txa hu-ní-ku-ĩ: a lingua dos caxinauás do rio Ibuaçu, affluente do Muru, Typ. Lenzinger, page 491:o macaco parauacú grande, o rio pegal-o quiz, correu de pressa, veio.- the big parauacú monkey, the river wanted to catch him, ran fast, came.
1991, Dominique Buchillet, Medicinas tradicionais e medicina ocidental na Amazônia: contribuições científicas apresentadas no Encontro de Belém - 27/novembro a 1º./dezembro de 1989, PR/SCT/Cnpg, Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, page 478:Administra-se outros remédios também para estancar a desinteria, cujas denominações referem-se a ela: “Remédio de Fezes”, “Remédios de Fezes Duras de Macaco Parauacu”, “Remédio de Desarranjo”, etc.- Other medicines are also adimistered to stop dysentery, whose names refer to it: “Feces Medicine”, “Hard Parauacu Monkey Feces Medicine”, “Dysentery Medicine”, etc.
1996, Resumos do XXI Congresso Brasileiro de Zoologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, page 217:Coletamos amostras de solo de cupinzeiros arborícolas utilizados pelo macaco parauacu Pithecia pithecia chrysocephala (Cebidae) na Amazônia Central, bem como amostras de subsolo do local- We collected soil samples from arboricolous termitaria used by the parauacu monkey Pithecia pithecia chrysocephala (Cebidae) in Central Amazônia, as well as samples of local subsoil.