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large monkeys with dark skin and woolly fur of the Amazon and Orinoco basins

1. : any of several large prehensile-tailed monkeys (genus Lagothrix) of the Amazon basin

2. : woolly spider monkey

either of two large New World monkeys Lagothrix lagotricha, with black skin and dark, woolly fur, and L. flavicauda, similar but with a buffy face patch and a yellow-banded tail, native to forests of the Amazon and Orinoco basins: L. lagotricha is endangered and L. flavicauda threatened.

[1875-80]

woolly monkey,

a large monkey with thick, soft, dark fur that lives in the western Amazon Valley of South America.