guariba

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guariba

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Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese guariba, from Old Tupi gûariba. Other early European spellings/renderings of the same Tupian word include guariva, guariha, uariba, waariba, and in French ouarive/ouariue (which was misread as ouarine, giving rise to that word and, by anglicization of it, to warine).

The Century Dictionary suggests a possible relation to araguato and/or araba (an obsolete word for a howler monkey of the genus Mycetes); the New English Dictionary directs readers to compare alouatte and araguato.

noun guaribas

Any of several South American howler monkeys with prehensile tails. [He saw] ahead of him the carcass of a guariba. It was drifting towards them, [...]

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@misc{guariba_2026,
  title = {guariba},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/guariba},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}