macaco
Americannoun
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macacos
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of macaco
1685–95; from Portuguese: “monkey”; see origin at macaque ( def. )
Example Sentences
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It bears the name of Cacao de macaco, or monkey's chocolate, but the seeds are smaller than those of the common cacao.
From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Henry Walter Bates
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 William H. C. Groome
The female of the great red kangaroo, however, is a delicate gray; while in the Lemur macaco of Madagascar the male is jet-black and the female brown.
From Darwinism (1889) by Alfred Russel Wallace
The male of the Lemur macaco is generally coal-black, whilst the female is brown.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
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 William H. C. Groome
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 William Henry Giles Kingston
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