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UAKARI
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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
Sense 1
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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