Definition of "ateles" []

• A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See spider monkey, and coaita. (noun)

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• "Besides the howlers there were other species -- there were tamarins, and ouistitis, and the black coaitas of the genus "ateles," all assembled around the juvia-tree."
• "Such was the fact, for they were "howling monkeys;" and some species of these can use the tail almost as adroitly as the "ateles" themselves."
• "Its body is entirely different from the "ateles" monkeys, being stouter and covered with a fuller coat of hair; and its tail is large and bushy, without any prehensile power."