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Definition of Sagoins
1. sagoin [n] - See also: sagoin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sagoins
Literary usage of Sagoins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Zoölogical Science: Or, Nature in Living Forms by Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield (1858)
"Which genus of sagoins is the largest? Of this genus Pithecia which is the most
remarkable? ... Which is the least and most beautiful of the sagoins ? ..."
2. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"Of the sagoins with feeble tails there are six kinds. The first and the largest
is the " saki," or ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1767)
"... which fome voyagers have called the Pleureur; and the Saimiri. —Of the latter,
the sagoins, we have fix varieties ; the Said ¡ the Tamarin ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"... and sagoins; of the former he admits six or seven species; of the latter six
only, which he deems for the most part varieties. ..."
5. Zoölogical Science: Or, Nature in Living Forms by Anna Maria (Treadwell) Redfield (1858)
"Which genus of sagoins is the largest? Of this genus Pithecia which is the most
remarkable? ... Which is the least and most beautiful of the sagoins ? ..."
6. A History of the Earth, and Animated Natureby Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving by Oliver Goldsmith, Washington Irving (1854)
"Of the sagoins with feeble tails there are six kinds. The first and the largest
is the " saki," or ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1767)
"... which fome voyagers have called the Pleureur; and the Saimiri. —Of the latter,
the sagoins, we have fix varieties ; the Said ¡ the Tamarin ..."
8. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1827)
"... and sagoins; of the former he admits six or seven species; of the latter six
only, which he deems for the most part varieties. ..."
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