saki1
/ˈsɑːki
/noun (plural sakis)
A tropical American monkey with coarse fur and a long bushy non-prehensile tail.
- Genera Pithecia and Chiropotes, family Cebidae: several species.
- While still at university, although she had never camped in the wild or even traveled outside the United States, she received a small grant to study sakis, a small primate that lives in little-explored areas of Guyana.
- A Fulbright scholar and former Miami Dolphins cheerleader, Mireya Mayor received her first grant to study the rare brown-bearded saki and white-faced saki in the unexplored areas of Guyana in South America when she was 23.
Origin
Late 18th century: via French from Tupi saui.
Rhymes
saki2
/ˈsäkē
/noun
Variant spelling of sake2.I managed to change and spent my last few evenings with my new-found friends drinking whisky and saki....
- Words of gratitude and respect were directed towards us and were soon drowned by loud cheers and flowing cups of beer and saki throughout the room.
- Their most famous alcoholic beverage is saki or rice wine, but this isn't an everyday drink in the same way.
Saki3
/ˈsɑːki/ (1870–1916), British short-story writer, born in Burma; pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro. His stories encompass the satiric, comic, macabre, and supernatural, and frequently depict animals as agents seeking revenge on humankind.