Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A kind of howling monkey of South America, of the genus Mycetes, M. ursinus, or the ursine howler.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A South American monkey, the ursine howler (
Mycetes ursinus ). Seehowler , n., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A South American
monkey , theursine howler (Mycetes ursinus).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Indescribably horrible were my sensations at that moment; I was deafened, and would possibly have been maddened had I not, as by a miracle, chanced to see a large araguato on a branch overhead, roaring with open mouth and inflated throat and chest.
Green Mansions 2004
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A brave speech, just after that araguato episode; but I did not make it without blushing — mentally. —
Green Mansions 2004
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It was only a large araguato, or howling monkey, but I was so unnerved that I could not get rid of the idea that it was something more than a monkey.
Green Mansions 2004
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I had always heard them at a distance; here they were gathered in scores, possibly hundreds — the whole araguato population of the forest, I should think — close to me; and it may give some faint conception of the tremendous power and awful character of the sound thus produced by their combined voices when
Green Mansions 2004
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Indescribably horrible were my sensations at that moment; I was deafened, and would possibly have been maddened had I not, as by a miracle, chanced to see a large araguato on a branch overhead, roaring with open mouth and inflated throat and chest.
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It was only a large araguato, or howling monkey, but I was so unnerved that I could not get rid of the idea that it was something more than a monkey.
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A brave speech, just after that araguato episode; but I did not make it without blushing -- mentally.
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The face of the araguato is of a blackish blue, and is covered with a fine and wrinkled skin: its beard is pretty long; and, notwithstanding the direction of the facial line, the angle of which is only thirty degrees, the araguato has, in the expression of the countenance, as much resemblance to man as the marimonde (S. belzebuth, Bresson) and the capuchin of the Orinoco (S. chiropotes).
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We also seek in vain on these banks for the thick-nosed tapir, the araguato, or great howling monkey, the zamuro, or Vultur aura, and the crested pheasant, known by the name of guacharaca.
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* It fell before sunrise, and the araguato monkeys had warned us, by their lengthened howlings, of the approaching rain, long before the noise of the cataract increased.
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