An alternative spelling of douricouli; a small South American nocturnal primate with large eyes, also called a night monkey.
Variant spelling of douricouli, reflecting different Anglicizations of the Portuguese/Tupi original word. Both spellings appear in 19th-century natural history texts.
Early naturalists couldn't agree on how to spell this animal's name, so multiple versions ended up in dictionaries—a linguistic fossil of exploration chaos!
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