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Catarrhine

adjective
1.
Of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward.  Synonym: catarrhinian.






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... the anatomical characters Darwin reaches the conclusion that the New World monkeys (Platyrrhine) may be excluded from the genealogical tree altogether, but that man is an offshoot from the Old World monkeys (Catarrhine) whose progenitors existed as far back as the Miocene period. Among these Old World monkeys the forms to which man shows the greatest resemblance are the anthropoid apes, which, like him, possess neither tail nor ischial callosities. The ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



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



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