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Sapajo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The sapajos form a division of the genus Simia, including such of the monkeys of America as have prehensile tails.

2. An expressed vegetable juice inspissated by slow evaporation, for the use of painters, as sap-green, etc.

Sapajo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sapajou [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Any one of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, having long and prehensile tails. Some of the species are called also capuchins. The bonnet sapajou (C. subcristatus), the golden-handed sapajou (C. chrysopus), and the white-throated sapajou (C. hypoleucus) are well known species. See Capuchin.