alouate

alouate (plural alouates)

1. Alternative form of alouatte
   • 1785, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon, translated by William Smellie, Natural History, General and Particular, second edition, volume VIII, page 178:

     We have never seen the ouarine, but have the skin of an alouate, and he wise a dried foetus of the same species, in which the bone of the throat, the instrument of the great noise he makes, is already perceptible.

alouate m (plural alouates)

1. howler monkey

• “alouate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.