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单词 alouatte
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alouatte

English

Etymology

From French alouatte, alouate, from a Cariban language; compare Galibi Carib arawata, Trió arawata, Wayana alawata, Maquiritari adawa'ta, Apalaí arauta, Akawaio arawta, Pemon arauta, Macushi arauta.[1][2] Compare araguato.

Noun

alouatte (plural alouattes)

  1. (now rare) A South American howler monkey (of the genus Alouatta). [from 18th c.]
    • 1981, Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator, ch. 11:
      I understood what he meant, and said, ‘Alouattes are shot every day.’

Further reading

  • alouatte in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  1. alouatte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
  2. Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, page 238.
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