macaco parauacu

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Noun

macaco parauacu m (plural macacos parauacu)

  1. 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.