Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Either of two medium-sized fruit-eating arboreal monkeys (Cacajao calvus or C. melanocephalus) of Amazonia, having a nearly bare stomach with long hair on the shoulders and upper back and a short bushy nonprehensile tail.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as saki.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Same as ouakari.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several arboreal monkeys, of the genus Cacajao, from the Amazon basin.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun medium-sized tree-dwelling monkey of the Amazon basin; only New World monkey with a short tail

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Of Tupian origin; akin to Amazonian Língua Geral (Tupí-based lingua franca of the Amazon River region) acari.]

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Examples

  • A K A R I win a spelling bee p.s. Every difficult word above -- except for "uakari" -- was in the 2009 National Spellng Bee p.p.s. I recorded this song live, and yes, by accident I DID spell "clogwyn" wrong.

    Too Old For The National Spellng Bee 2009

  • A K A R I win a spelling bee p.s. Every difficult word above -- except for "uakari" -- was in the 2009 National Spellng Bee p.p.s. I recorded this song live, and yes, by accident I DID spell "clogwyn" wrong.

    Too Old For The National Spellng Bee 2009

  • Look at that uakari monkey in that tree someday he might help U ...

    Too Old For The National Spellng Bee 2009

  • Look at that uakari monkey in that tree someday he might help U ...

    Too Old For The National Spellng Bee 2009

  • The nine primates include howler monkeys Alouatta seniculus, night monkeys Aotus trivirgatus, titi monkeys Callicebus torquatus, black uakari Cacajao melanocephalus, weeper capuchins Cebus olivaceus, and white-faced sakis Pithecia pithecia.

    Canaima National Park, Venezuela 2009

  • In 1985 there was a satellite survey of water levels and a scientist researching the endemic white uakari suggested an ecological station in Mamirauá which developed into the IDSM Mamirauá Institute at Tefé with a small basic laboratory and where from 1992 research has been ongoing into várzea ecology and local social and economic conditions.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • These include the black uakari monkey, pink dolphin (VU), grey dolphin, giant otter (EN), and jaguar. harpy eagle, What may be the largest population of Amazon manatees (VU) inhabits the black waters of Amanã Lake during the dry season, migrating during the flood season to várzea forest in Mamirauá, where its preferred foods are abundant.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • The mammals include long-tounged bat Scleronycteris ega (VU), two endemic primates, the white uakari monkey Cacajao calvus calvus which is found only within the Reserve and the blackheaded squirrel monkey Saimiri vanzolinii.

    Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil 2008

  • The Mamirauá Reserve is home to the two narrow endemics, white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).

    Purus varzea 2008

  • Terrestrial mammal diversity is smaller because the habitat is often flooded; two narrow endemic primates inhabit this region, the white uakari monkeys (Cacajao calvus calvus) and blackish squirrel monkeys (Saimiri vanzolinii).

    Purus varzea 2008

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