alouate
English edit
Noun edit
alouate (plural alouates)
- 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.
French edit
Noun edit
alouate m (plural alouates)
Further reading edit
- “alouate”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.