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coati

WordNet
Animal referred to in drawing as a Brazilian coati, or coati. The very long snout or nose, however, points to another, unknown animal. Suggested sitting in a cage. With inscriptions in Latin. Numbered top right: 11. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Animal referred to in drawing as a Brazilian coati, or coati. The very long snout or nose, however, points to another, unknown animal. Suggested sitting in a cage. With inscriptions in Latin. Numbered top right: 11. Part of the first album with drawings of four-legged friends. First of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
  1. (n) coati
    omnivorous mammal of Central America and South America
Illustrations
Red coati or coatimundi. Numbered top right: 10. Part of the second album with drawings of four-legged friends. Second of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanation in Dutch, Latin and French.
Red coati or coatimundi (Nasua nasua)
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Coati
    (Zoöl) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, having a ringed tail but with a longer body, tail, and nose; -- called also coati mondi and coati mundi.☞ The red coati (Nasua socialis), called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati (Nasua narica) is found in Surinam and Brazil.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) coati
    An American plantigrade carnivorous quadruped, of the family Procyonidæ, subfamily Nasuinæ, and genus Nasua (which see), inhabiting tropical and subtropical regions. It is most nearly related to the racoons, but has an elongated body, a long tail, and an attenuated and very flexible snout, whence the generic name Nasua. In general aspect the coatis resemble the ring-tailed bassaris, and still more some of the old-world ichneumons or Viverridæ, to which family these animals were formerly referred. There are two distinct species of coatis or coatimondis, the synonymy of which has been almost inextricably confused, nearly all the names which have been given to one having been also applied to the other. One is the red, ring-tailed, or Brazilian coati, Viverra nasua of Linnæus, now known as Nasua rufa, also formerly as N. vulpecula, N. quasje, N. fusca, N. socialis, N. solitaria, etc., of various writers, which is the southern form, ranging over the greater part of South America. The other is the brown or Mexican coati, Viverra narica of Linnæus, now called Nasua narica, ranging from the isthmus of Panama through Central America and the warmer parts of Mexico.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Coati
    kō-ä′ti or kō′a-ti an American plantigrade carnivorous mammal allied to the raccoons
  2. Coati
    Also Coä′ti-mun′di
  3. (n) Coati
    kō-ä′ti or kō′a-ti, an American plantigrade carnivorous mammal allied to the raccoons
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From the native name: cf. F. coati,

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Tupi.

Usage in the news

As well as jaguars and maned wolves, the researchers hope to clone black lion tamarins, bush dogs, coatis, collared anteaters, gray brocket deer and bison. columbian.com

Parque Machia has monkeys, bears, ocelots, coatis, macaws, eagles, and pumas , but tourists mainly get to the monkeys, which are very relaxed with humans. magazine.audubon.org

Usage in literature

I shall then have tame goats; I will also have Guinea-pigs, agoutis, and coatis. "The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or The Real Robinson Crusoe" by Joseph Xavier Saintine

So they called her Rushen Coatie, and made her sit in the kitchen nook, amid the ashes. "More English Fairy Tales" by Various

On the island of Coati there are remarkable ruins. "Ancient America, in Notes on American Archaeology" by John D. Baldwin

The lively coatis traverse the forests in flocks. "Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests" by J. J. von Tschudi

Coatis are gregarious and arboreal in habit, and feed on birds, eggs, lizards and insects. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5" by Various

All our lads grew quick, they ne'er wore out a suit, and I put their wee breeks and coaties awa'. "Christine" by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

The raccoon belongs to North America, the coati to Central and Southern America. "Natural History in Anecdote" by Various

Additionally there was a large number of coati skins. "The Recent Mammals of Tamaulipas, Mexico" by Ticul Alvarez

He came down a sadder and a better coati, and retired with shame and fear to an outer corner. "Curiosities of Civilization" by Andrew Wynter