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titi1 /ˈtiːtiː /(also titi monkey) noun (plural titis)A small forest-dwelling monkey of South America.- Genus Callicebus, family Cebidae: several species.
Robert Wallace, working for the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society, was surveying in Bolivia's Madidi national park five years ago when he found what he concluded was a previously unrecorded species of titi monkey....- Voss played me an interview with a hunter that included the man's evocative imitations of the calls of titi monkeys.
- And a few kilometres away, on the Pacific coast, American tourists sit in resorts, drinking cervezas and taking photos of the titi monkeys playing in a nearby tree.
Origin Mid 18th century: from Aymara. Rhymes Beatty, entreaty, graffiti, meaty, Nefertiti, peaty, sleety, sweetie, Tahiti, treaty titi2 /ˈtʌɪtʌɪ / /ˈtiːtiː /noun (plural titis) Another term for leatherwood (sense 1). Origin Early 19th century: perhaps of American Indian origin. |