catarrhine

American  

[kat-uh-rahyn, ‐rin] / ˈkæt əˌraɪn, ‐rɪn /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the subdivision of simians that comprises Old World monkeys and apes, including humans.

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noun

1. a catarrhine animal.

catarrhine British  

/ ˈkætəˌraɪn /

adjective

1. (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face

2. Also: leptorrhine.  (of humans) having a thin or narrow nose

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noun

1. an animal or person with this characteristic

Etymology

Origin of catarrhine

First recorded in 1860–65; from New Latin Catarrhīnī, plural of catarrhīnus, from Greek katárrhīn “hook-nosed,” equivalent to kata- “down” + -rhīn “-nosed,” adjective derivative of rhī́s “nose, snout”; see origin at cata-, rhino- ( def. ); cf. haplorhine ( def. ), platyrrhine ( def. ), strepsirrhine ( def. )

Example Sentences

Catarrhine, Catarhine, kat′ar-īn, adj. pertaining to that one of the two divisions of Quadrumana, including all the Old-World monkeys, having a narrow partition between the nostrils.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Naturally, our Catarrhine ancestors must have passed through a long series of different forms before the human type was produced.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

We have seen that man appears to have diverged from the Catarrhine or Old World division of the Simiadae, after these had diverged from the New World division.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

The Catarrhine and Platyrrhine monkeys agree in a multitude of characters, as is shewn by their unquestionably belonging to one and the same Order.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

Both Darwin's vertebral plexus, and Herbert Spencer's "line of individuation," must begin with the lancelet and its disputed head, and end in the Catarrhine or Old World monkey.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.