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Macaco   Listen
noun
Macaco  n.  (Zool.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Macaco" Quotes from Famous Books



... into Don Platon's little shop, we asked the young macaco for him, and we passed on ...
— Caesar or Nothing • Pio Baroja Baroja

... there is often a somewhat greater intensity of colour in the male, but rarely a decided difference. The female of the great red kangaroo, however, is a delicate gray; while in the Lemur macaco of Madagascar the male is jet-black and the female brown. In many monkeys also there are some differences of colour, especially on the face. The sexual weapons and ornaments of male mammalia, as horns, crests, manes, and dewlaps, are well known, ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace



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