释义 |
‖ alouatte Zool.|æluːˈæt| [a. Fr. alouate, ? ad. araguato native name.] The Howling Monkey, Mycetes seniculus of Iliger, a native of S. America.
1778Camper in Phil. Trans. LXIX. 156 The very extraordinary organ of voice of the alouate or hurleur de Cayenne, the Simia Capucina of Linnæus. 1852T. Ross tr. Humboldt's Trav. I. viii. 273 The monotonous howling of the alouate apes, which resembles the distant sound of wind when it shakes the forest. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 31 The alouattes or howling monkeys. |