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catarrhine

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Adjective, Noun

HYPHEN

cat=arrh=ine

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun catarrhine has 1 sense

catarrhine(n = noun.animal) old world monkey - of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together; Array

is a member of cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae

is a kind of monkey

has particulars: guenon, guenon monkey, mangabey, erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas, baboon, macaque, langur, colobus, colobus monkey, nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey

Derived form adjective catarrhinian₁

Adjective catarrhine has 1 sense

catarrhine(a = adj.all) catarrhinian - of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward; Array

Antonyms: leptorrhine, platyrrhine

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CIDE DICTIONARY

catarrhine, n. [Gr. kata`rris with hanging or curved nose; kata` down + "ri`s, "rino`s nose.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

catarrhine, adj. & n. Zool.
--adj. (of primates) having nostrils close together, and directed downwards, e.g. a baboon, chimpanzee, or human.
--n. such an animal (cf. PLATYRRHINE).

Etymology

CATA- + rhis rhinos nose

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