chuva (choʻva)

of a kind of spider-monkey, of a brown color. chylaceous (ki-lā'shius), a. [ The South American name The corpuscles are nucleated cells, which exhibit ameboid movements; and the fluid so obviously represents the blood of the higher animals that I know not why the preposterous name of chylaqueous fluid should have been invented for that which is in no sense chyle, though, like other fluids of the living body, it contains a good deal of water. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 480.