coaita

English
Ateles paniscus

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Etymology

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Noun

coaita (plural coaitas)

  1. (dated) Any of certain South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, especially Ateles paniscus.
    • 1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], 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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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for coaita in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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