Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Brazilian name for several monkeys of the genus Lagothrix.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.
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- noun A large, dark-coloured
South American monkey of thegenus Lagothrix , with a longprehensile tail .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Among the most curious is the pashiuba barrigudo, or bulging-stemmed palm (Iriartea ventricosa); which, rising on a pyramid of roots for several feet, runs up in a single column for some distance, and then swells in a curious spindle-form, again to assume the same proportions as below, till its head spreads out in several fan-like branches with web-shaped leaflets.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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I recognised them as the species called by the Portuguese _Macaco barrigudo_, or the big-bellied monkey.
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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_macaco barrigudo_ to himself, began without ceremony to skin it, and in
On the Banks of the Amazon William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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