单词 | alouatte |
释义 | alouatten. Now rare. A howler monkey (genus Alouatta). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey) guariba1753 howling monkey1769 warine1774 alouatte1779 howler monkey1800 araguato1852 congo ape1859 red howler1865 Congo monkey1874 ursine howler1884 Stentor1891 1779 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 69 156 The very extraordinary organ of voice of the alouate or hurleur de Cayenne, the Simia Capucina of Linnæus. 1852 T. Ross tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. Amer. I. viii. 273 The monotonous howling of the alouate apes, which resembles the distant sound of wind when it shakes the forest. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 31 The alouattes or howling monkeys. 1912 J. B. Woodworth in Bull. Mus. Compar. Zoöl. Harvard 56 22 They had shot and killed a large howling monkey or alouatte. 1989 G. Wolfe Endangered Species (2004) 213 Father Inire bent nearly double, like a gnome in a nursery book, with no more nose than an alouatte. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1779 |
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