sapajou (n.) Any one of several species of South American monkeys of
the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species
are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the
golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou
(C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.
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sapajou sap′a-zhōō, n. a name
sometimes applied to all that division of American monkeys which have a
prehensile tail, and sometimes limited to those of them which are of a
slender form, as the genera Ateles or spider-monkey, Cebus,
&c.—Also Sajou′
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