spider monkeyn.
One or other of the monkeys belonging to the South and Central American genus Ateles, characterized by their long spider-like limbs and prehensile tail.
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1764 G. Edwards Gleanings Nat. Hist. III. 222 I lately..saw..a Black Monkey something like the above-described: they called him a Spider Monkey, from his thinness and the length of his limbs and tail.
1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. I. 69 Spider Monkey.
1836 F. Marryat Pirate iv, in Pirate & Three Cutters 29 I always thinks of two spider monkeys nursing two kittens.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last II. xvii. 307 The Spider Monkeys are instinctively gentle and fond of man.
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