ouarine

English

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Etymology

French ouarine, a misreading of ouariue (i.e. ouarive), from the same source as English guariba.[1][2]

Noun

ouarine (plural ouarines)

  1. A Brazilian howler monkey in the genus Alouatta.
  • warine (anglicized form of this word)

References

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  1. Jas. Platt, Jun., in The Athenaeum, number 3840, 1 June 1901, page 695-696
  2. New English Dictionary, volume 7, O–P (1909): ouarine
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