guariba

guariba means any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese guariba, from Old Tupi gûariba. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word and, by anglicization of it, to warine). The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

noun

Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails.e.g.“[He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]” — 1865, The Boys' Journal:

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Words closest in meaning

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caparro 67% match — A large South American monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha), with a prehensile tail. vs guariba →
araguato 66% match — A South American howler monkey, the ursine howler (Alouatta arctoidea). vs guariba →
caiarara 64% match — A kind of capuchin monkey. vs guariba →
guara 63% match — A maned wolf, of species Chrysocyon brachyurus (syn. Canis jubatus), native to much of subtropical central South America, east of the Andes. vs guariba →
ouarine 62% match — A howler monkey (Alouatta spp.). vs guariba →
muriqui 61% match — A New World monkey of the genus Brachyteles, found in Brazilian forests. vs guariba →
saimiri 59% match — any member of Saimiri, a taxonomic genus of South American arboreal monkeys, a squirrel monkey vs guariba →
coaita 58% match — spider monkey vs guariba →