Mȳ-çē'tēs, n.

noun

Mȳ-çē'tēs (-sē'teez), n. [Gr. μυκητής, a bellower, μυκᾶσθαι, to bellow.] (Zoöl.) The howling monkey, a variety of the quadrumana of America having an arrangement of the hyoid bone which gives their voice astonishing power and a frightful sound.

An illustration of a monkey seated on a branch, raising one hand and holding a curled object in the other. — Mycetes (*M. ursinus*).