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Definition of Catarrhine
1. Noun. Of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together.
Group relationships: Cercopithecidae, Family Cercopithecidae
Generic synonyms: Monkey
Specialized synonyms: Guenon, Guenon Monkey, Mangabey, Erythrocebus Patas, Hussar Monkey, Patas, Baboon, Macaque, Langur, Colobus, Colobus Monkey, Nasalis Larvatus, Proboscis Monkey
Derivative terms: Catarrhinian
2. Adjective. Of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward.
Definition of Catarrhine
1. n. 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.
Definition of Catarrhine
1. Adjective. Describing the ''Catarrhini'' parvorder of primates (including humans) that have nostrils that are close together and directed frontward or downward ¹
2. Noun. Any animal of this group ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Catarrhine
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Catarrhine
1. Relating to the Catarrhina. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catarrhine
Literary usage of Catarrhine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On Geoffroy St.-Hilaire's Distinction between catarrhine and Platyrrhine ...
Hence it results that in catarrhine Quadrumana the lower angles of the nostrils ..."
2. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"... TO THE catarrhine GRADE OF ORGANIZATION That the higher primates have been
... REPRESENTING THE catarrhine. AFTER ELLIOT this highly important genus was ..."
3. Transactions by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire (1863)
"HILAIRE'S DIVISION INTO catarrhine AND PLATYRRHINE GROUPS. By Cuthbert Collingwood,
MB, FLS, Hon. Sec. to the Liverpool Literary and Philosophical Society ..."
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