macaco
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of macaco
1685–95; from Portuguese: “monkey”; see origin at macaque ( def. )
Example Sentences
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I stood in front of a Yankee Stadium gate and called Macaco on his cellphone.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2011
His Dominican former Little League coach from Washington Heights, Carlos Ferreira, known by the nickname Macaco, had given Manny my number.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2011
The Macaco apes constitute another genus, which forms the link between the guenons and the baboons, or dog-headed monkeys.
From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William
I recognised them as the species called by the Portuguese Macaco barrigudo, or the big-bellied monkey.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.
This is also a winding channel, thirty-five miles in length, threading a group of islands, but it is much narrower than the Macaco.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter
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