Zool. [a. Fr. alouate, ? ad. araguato native name.] The Howling Monkey, Mycetes seniculus of Iliger, a native of S. America.
1778. Camper, in Phil. Trans., LXIX. 156. The very extraordinary organ of voice of the alouate or hurleur de Cayenne, the Simia Capucina of Linnæus.
1852. T. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., I. viii. 273. The monotonous howling of the alouate apes, which resembles the distant sound of wind when it shakes the forest.
1860. Gosse, Rom. Nat. Hist., 31. The alouattes or howling monkeys.
