araguato

English

Etymology

From or cognate to French araguate (whence the rare older English spelling araguate), from a native name. The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to guariba and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes). On the other hand, Merriam-Webster attributes it to Cariban.

Noun

araguato (plural araguatos)

  1. A South American monkey, the ursine howler (Mycetes ursinus).

Translations

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 araguato in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Portuguese

Noun

araguato m (plural araguatos)

  1. araguato (a South American monkey, Mycetes ursinus)
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