guariba

From Portuguese [Term?], from a Tupian[1] (Nhengatu)[2] name. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word[3] and, by anglicization of it, to warine[4]).[5]

The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

guariba (plural guaribas)

1. Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.
   • 1865, in The Boys' Journal:

     [He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]

   • 1911, Jules Verne, The five hundred millions of the begum, page 261:

     It was not a man at all, it was a guariba. Of all the prehensile-tailed monkeys which haunt the forests of the Upper Amazon the guariba is without doubt the most eccentric. Of sociable disposition, and not very savage, ...

   • 1963, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology:

     THE MAN WHO MARRIED THE GUARIBA MONKEY

     There was once a man who unknowingly married a guariba monkey in human form. The couple lived together until she grew pregnant; she then suggested a visit to her father.

• ouarine, warine