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Definition of Ouistitis
1. ouistiti [n] - See also: ouistiti
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ouistitis
Literary usage of Ouistitis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Pierre André Latreille (1831)
"M. Geoffroy distinguishes the ouistitis, properly so called, which he names ...
(2) It is difficult to establish very specific limits between ouistitis of ..."
2. Martin's Natural History by F. Martin, Sarah Ann Myers (1870)
"... unlike other monkeys, it prefers raw meat and young birds to fruit. Of all
the American monkeys, they only are rapacious. II.—THE ouistitis, OR SQUIRREL ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"The home of the ouistitis extends from Mexico to Brazil. The squirrel- apes are
not yet perfect monkeys, though having the same number of identically shaped ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"The home of the ouistitis extends from Mexico to Brazil. The squirrel- apes are
not yet perfect monkeys, though having the same number of identically shaped ..."
5. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A...description of Man and Nature in the by Georg Hartwig (1877)
"It lives chiefly on nocturnal insects, thinning their ranks like the bat, but is
also said to prey upon small birds like the owl. The ouistitis, or Squirrel ..."
6. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"At intervals they emit a feeble cry, to the sound of which they owe their name,
ouistitis. These animals show little aversion to captivity, and easily bear ..."
7. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The ouistitis, or ... Zoological Society of London (February, 1835), giving an
account of the birth of two young ones, the produce of a pair of ouistitis ..."
8. Lectures on Comparative Anatomy. by Robert Edmond Grant (1834)
"... excepting the two small ouistitis, the iacchus, and the midas, which face in
the simiae is greatly diminished, in have the same numher as in the human ..."
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