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单词 alouatte
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alouatten.

Brit. /aluːˈat/, U.S. /ˌæluˈæt/
Forms: 1700s– alouate, 1800s– alouatte.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French alouate.
Etymology: < French alouate, alouatte (1741) < Carib †aláoüata (1665 in R. Breton Dict. Caraïbe, now arawata : see araguato n.). Compare scientific Latin Alouatta , genus name ( B. G. E. de Lacépède Tableau des mammifères (1799) 4), Spanish aluato (1853; 1845 as aluate , aluatà ), Portuguese aluata (1899). Compare also araguato n.
Now rare.
A howler monkey (genus Alouatta).
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey)
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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).
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