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Catarrhine   Listen
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Catarrhine  n.  (Zool.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.





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... Mr. John Fiske declares that man is descended from the catarrhine apes.—Destiny of Man, p. 19. Professor Le Conte maintains that no existing animal could ever be developed into man. He traces all existing species up from a common stock, of which man is the head. The common line of ancestors ...
— Oriental Religions and Christianity • Frank F. Ellinwood


Words linked to "Catarrhine" :   colobus monkey, proboscis monkey, colobus, platyrrhine, Erythrocebus patas, langur, Nasalis larvatus, leptorrhine, mangabey, family Cercopithecidae, macaque, catarrhinian, Old World monkey, patas, baboon


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