coati
noun/kəʊˈɑːti/
/kəʊˈɑːti/
(also coatimundi
/kəʊˌɑːtiˈmʌndi/
/kəʊˌɑːtiˈmʌndi/
)- a small animal with a long nose and a long tail with lines across it, which lives mainly in Central and South AmericaTopics Animalsc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Spanish and Portuguese, from Tupi kua'ti, from cua ‘belt’ + tim ‘nose’.
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