catarrhine

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The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.

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  1. adjective Of or being a group of primates including the Old World monkeys, apes, and humans, characterized by nostrils that are close together and directed frontward or downward.
  2. noun A catarrhine primate, such as a gorilla.

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  • He's but a branch of the _catarrhine_ cat, you know -- —  The Book of Humorous Verse
  • The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae. —  Evolution in Modern Thought
  • However, the first structure of the olfactory organ in the human embryo gives no indication of the future ample proportions of our catarrhine nose. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • In the common catarrhine ancestors of the anthropoids and man the degeneration set in with the folding together of the pinna. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
  • Within the limits of this small group of mammals we found the structural differences between the lower and higher catarrhine apes -- for instance, the baboon and the gorilla -- to be much greater than the differences between the anthropoid apes and man. —  The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
 

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/ˈkætərajn/
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