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  • noun The popular deliberative assembly in the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta, corresponding to the ecclesia in most other Greek states.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek Ἀπέλλα (Apella).

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Examples

  • These include: Saguinus midas, Saimiri sciureus, Pithecia pithecia, Cebus apella, and Alouatta seniculus.

    Paramaribo swamp forests 2008

  • American monkeys (_Cebus apella_ and _C. albifrons_) with the intention of showing that man is of several distinct species, because skulls of different men are less alike than are those of these two monkeys; and he does this regardless of how the skulls of domestic animals (with which it is far more legitimate to compare races of men than with wild kinds),

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • It has the orbits of the eyes and the forehead as white as snow, a peculiarity which at first sight distinguishes it from the Simia capucina, the Simia apella, the Simia trepida, and the other weeping monkeys hitherto so confusedly described.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • Anoop Desai, the UNC grad student heading to Hollywood on American Idol, is an alumnus of the Clef Hangers, the rock apella group.

    newsobserver.com blogs 2009

  • A pair of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show very compelling signs of cooperation and a sense of fairness, by working together to solve a problem using tools, and then sharing the reward.

    iToot Stream 2009

  • A pair of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show very compelling signs of cooperation and a sense of fairness, by working together to solve a problem using tools, and then sharing the reward.

    Qwaider Planet 2009

  • There are over 50 species of mammals present including opossums, bats, primates such as capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella), squirrel monkeys (Saimira sciureus), howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus) and Guianan saki (Pithecia pithecia), giant ant-eater (Myrmecophaga triactyla), carnivores including jaguar (Panthera onca), puma (Puma concolor), and ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), ungulates and rodents including the capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris).

    Guianan mangroves 2008

  • These include the White-faced Saki (Pithecia pithecia) and the common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus) red howler monkey (Alouatta senculus), black spider monkey (Ateles paniscus), red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas), brown capuchin (Cebus apella) the weeper capuchin (Cebus nigrivittatus) and the black saki (Chiropotes satanas).

    Central Suriname Nature Reserve, Suriname 2008

  • Enfin Ragotin V apella Mr. d la plume verte, et comme veritablement il en avoit une bien toufFue, bien sale, et pen fine, il tourna la teste, et vit le petit impatient qui lui dit assez rudement qu*

    Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses 1812

  • 1997 "Success and understanding in cognitive tasks: A comparison between Cebus apella and Pan troglodytes"

    The Moral Status of Animals Gruen, Lori 2003

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