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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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"Catarrhine" Quotes from Famous Books



... cells in their transformations remain stationary here and there, either at the boundary line of worms, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, or mammals, the one cell which was destined to become man moves on to the stage of the tailed catarrhine apes, then of the tailless apes, and without staying here it irresistibly strides towards its original goal, and only stops where it is destined to stop. Speaking, however, not phylogenetically, but ontogenetically, at what point does our own cell come in contact with the cell that was ...
— The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour • Friedrich Max Mueller



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



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