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  • noun Plural form of ouistiti.

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Examples

  • You look like ouistitis, like little china ornaments, like I don't know what.

    Madame Chrysantheme Pierre Loti 1886

  • Besides the howlers there were other species -- there were tamarins, and ouistitis, and the black coaitas of the genus "ateles," all assembled around the juvia-tree.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

  • We may see human-like forms, -- the _quadrumana_ -- clinging among the high branches, and leaping from tree to tree, like birds upon the wing; we may see them of many shapes, sizes, and colours, from the great howling monkeys, with their long prehensile tails, down to the little saimiris and ouistitis not larger than squirrels.

    The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

  • Besides the howlers there were other species -- there were tamarins, and ouistitis, and the black coaitas of the genus "ateles," all assembled around the juvia-tree.

    The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

  • _quadrumana_ -- clinging among the high branches, and leaping from tree to tree, like birds upon the wing; we may see them of many shapes, sizes, and colours, from the great howling monkeys, with their long prehensive tails, down to the little saimiris and ouistitis not larger than squirrels.

    Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850

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