macaco
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of macaco
1685–95; from Portuguese: “monkey”; see origin at macaque ( def. )
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We made a very substantial meal, John and I agreeing that the big macaco was very nice food.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.
There on some rank straw and old bits of cloth, a young macaco with a chain round his middle sat and shivered.
From Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels by France, Anatole
Duppo picked up one of them, and found another piece close by which fitted on to it, and then told us that they were called monkeys’ drinking-cups; the Portuguese call them cuyas de macaco.
From On the Banks of the Amazon by Groome, William H. C.
The male of the Lemur macaco is generally coal-black, whilst the female is brown.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
Pollen and van Dam, on the colours of Lemur macaco.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
They are called by the Portuguese macacos barrigudos, or big-bellied monkeys.
From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles
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