Coaita
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Coaita is a noun meaning (dated) spider monkey.
Meaning
(dated) spider monkey.
Example Sentences
The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…].
Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.
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.
Word Forms
- coaitas
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include marimonda, ringtail, muriqui, chameck, mico, caissaca.
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