saporous

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The puma, the jaguar, the tapir, the capybara, the llama, or glama, and vicuna, and the whole tribe of sapajous, were to them entirely new animals, of which they had not the smallest idea....

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith

The name capuchin is derived from the somewhat cowl-like form assumed by the thick hair on the crown of the head of the sapajous.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" by Various

Among the most curious of the monkey tribe are the ateles, or spider-monkeys,—called also Cebidae, and, by the natives sapajous, one of the species of the coaita, or quata.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles