sapajou

Borrowed from French sapajou, borrowed from Old Tupi sapaîu.^[1]

sapajou (plural sapajous)

1. Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails.

• sajou

• “sapajou”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Old Tupi sapaîu.

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sapajou m (plural sapajous)

1. sapajou

• → English: sapajou
• → Translingual: Sapajus

• “sapajou”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.