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Definition of Saimiris
1. saimiri [n] - See also: saimiri
Lexicographical Neighbors of Saimiris
Literary usage of Saimiris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A...description of Man and Nature in the by Georg Hartwig (1877)
"The second group of American monkeys, consisting of those with a non-prehensile
tail, comprises the sakis, the saimiris, the ouistitis, etc. ..."
2. Reports on Zoology for 1843, 1844 by Andreas Johann Wagner, Franz Hermann Troschel, Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson, Carl Th. Ernst Siebold (1847)
"Of the Nocturnal Apes and saimiris, more species than have hitherto been admitted
have been distinguished by Is. Geoffroy. (Inst. 1843, p. 178. ..."
3. Catalogue of Monkeys, Lemurs, and Fruit-eating Bats in the Collection of the by John Edward Gray (1870)
"... tail short, thick, black- tipped ; face whitish. Far. 1. Outer side of the
forearm golden. saimiris ustus, I. Geoff. Ann. du Mus. iv. t. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1897)
"There are but three species of saimiris or Squirrel Monkey*, yet they are very
widely distributed. These beautiful little creatures are slender and elegant ..."
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