callithrix

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

callithrix, trĭchos, f., = καλλίθριξ (fair-haired).

I A plant used for coloring the hair , also called trichomanes, Plin. 26, 15, 90, § 160; 26, 14, 87, § 147; 25, 11, 86, § 135.—

II Plur. : callitrĭches , um, a kind of ape or monkey in Ethiopia; acc. to Lichtenstein, Simia faunus, Linn.; Plin. 8, 54, 80, § 216.