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UAKARI

Dictionary entry overview: What does uakari mean?

• UAKARI (noun)
The noun UAKARI has 1 sense:

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

Familiarity information: UAKARI used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• UAKARI (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("uakari" is a kind of...):

New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)

Holonyms ("uakari" is a member of...):

Cacajao; genus Cacajao (uakaris)

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