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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having long legs and a long prehensile tail and lacking a thumb.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A tropical American platyrrhine monkey, of the family Cebidæ, subfamily Cebinæ, and genera Ateles and Brachyteles; a kind of sajou or sapajou, likened to a spider by reason of the very long and slim limbs, and long prehensile tail. They are large slender-bodied monkeys of great agility and of arboreal habits, with the thumb absent or imperfect. Brachyteles (or Eriodes) arachnoides is a Brazilian spider-monkey called the miriki Ateles paniscus is the large black spider-monkey, or coiata; A. melanochir is the black-handed spider-monkey; and many more species or varieties of this genus have been named. One of the spider-monkeys, A. vellerosus, is among the most northerly of American monkeys, extending into Mexico to Orizaba and Oajaca. The flesh of some species is used for food, and the pelts have a commercial value. See also cut under Eriodes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any New World monkey of the genus Ateles, with long, spindly limbs.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) any one of numerous species of South American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having very long legs and a long prehensile tail.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail

Examples

  • “He broke the spider monkey out when our energy flagged, which was often, and I always thought his motivation was a magician's motivation, creating a flourish with his left hand so that we wouldn't notice him reaching his right into his sleeve, creating a small explosion to hide the doves he pulled from offstage, creating a ruckus with his body to disguise the dexterity of his mind.”

    Land of the Blind

  • “But I know that the tail of a spider monkey is homologous to my coccyx, just as the enormously long and strong wing bone of a pterodactyl is homologous to my little finger.”

    Simon & Schuster: THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

  • ““At Dupuy School, a man came with a baboon and a spider monkey and three chimpanzees—and we got to pet them; and we brushed the hair backward and the skin was pink.””

    Simon & Schuster: Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter

  • “One species of spider monkey occurred only in the Guiana district, northeast of the Amazon-Negro junction.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

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  1. new world monkey
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  1. sapajou
  2. coaita
  1. thumbless
  2. platyrrhini
  1. superfamily platyrrhini
  2. prehensile
  1. ateles
  2. marimonda
  1. chameck
  2. belzebuth
  1. chuva
  2. clutchtail
  1. spider monkey

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  • bilby "I had a professor that had a spider monkey when he lived on the beach.

    His story was that he went to the store and bought a couple women's bathing suit tops. He left them around the house and started placing peanuts on top of them. After the monkey got used to that, he started leaving the peanuts underneath the tops. Eventually, he progressed to strapping the tops around chairs or around himself with peanuts stuffed in the cups.

    Eventually, they got the monkey to the point where he thought all bathing suit tops contained peanuts, and started taking him out on the beach. Of course, all the girls want to pet the monkey and play with him, and as soon as they'd get him into their arms... he'd tear their bathing suit top off, looking for peanuts.

    Honestly, I can't really think of a lot of better uses for an animal."
    - web, anon., Mar 2007. Dec 23, 2007

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