coaita

plural coaitas · alternative koaita

1. datedspider monkey

   The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…].

   1896, Henry Ogg Forbes, A Hand-book to the Primates, volume 1, page 230

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   1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338, All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita.

   Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm.

   1866, The Boys' Journal, volume 6, page 36