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coaita

coaita noun: spider monkey.

coaita: spider monkey
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Noun

coaita (plural coaitas)

  1. (dated) spider monkey
    • 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.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
    • 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

Forms of coaita

pluralcoaitas
alternative formkoaita

Questions about coaita

What does coaita mean?
Coaita means spider monkey.
What part of speech is coaita?
Coaita is a noun.
What is the plural of coaita?
The plural of coaita is coaitas.

Words near coaita in the dictionary

  1. Coahuila de Zaragoza
  2. Coahuila y Tejas
  3. Coahuiltecan
  4. Coahuiltecans
  5. Coahuilteco
  6. coaita
  7. coaitas
  8. coaiti
  9. coaitis
  10. coak
  11. coaked

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