coaita

1. (dated) spider monkeyExamples: "1830, Unnamed translator, Georges Louis Leclerc, The Natural History of Quadrupeds, [1749–1804, Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi], Volume 3, page 338, All these facts, even the worms in the intestines, correspond with our coaitas. […] It is obvious, therefore, that the exquima of Marcgrave is a sapajou of the same species, or, at least, of a species very nearly allied to that of the coaita."; "Even the coaita, screened by the intervention of the bodies, had, for the time, ceased to utter its cries of alarm."; "The flesh of the Coaitas is much esteemed by the natives in this part of the country[…]."dated