English Explanatory Dictionary

saimiri

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

any member of Saimiri, a taxonomic genus of South American arboreal monkeys, a squirrel monkey

Word forms

saimiri saimiris

Etymology

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese saí-mirim (literally “little monkey”).

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