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sagoin|səˈgɔɪn|
Forms: 7–9 sagouin, (8 sangwyn), 9 (in Dicts.) saguin, 7– sagoin.
[a. F. sagouin, † sagoin, a. Pg. saguim, a. Guarani sagui, çagui (= Tupi sahy: see sai1), whence by misreading the synonym cagui.]
A small South American monkey, esp. one of the genus Callithrix.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 18 This figure of the Sagoin, I receiued of..a very learned Apothecary of Antwerpe. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 838 A kind of Monkey called Sagouin. 1704Nieuhof's East Indies in Churchill's Voy. II. 362 Those [monkeys] called sangwyns. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 235 Those [monkeys] with muscular holding tails, are called Sapajous; those with feeble, useless tails, are called Sagoins. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 62 The Masked Sagouin (Callithrix personata, Geof.), the Widow Sagouin (C. lugens, Humb.). 1852Th. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. viii. 279 They never play like the young sagoins. |