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

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catarrhine

In the catarrhine primates, like macaques, it is generally absent, or reduced, with some indeterminate function.

From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2014

Wanderoo, won-de-rōō′, n. a catarrhine monkey, a native of the Malabar coast of India.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

In the common catarrhine ancestors of the anthropoids and man the degeneration set in with the folding together of the pinna.

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

Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.

From The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi by Sir Richard Francis Burton

That this "tailless, catarrhine, anthropoid ape" should have had anything resembling a religion, is, of course, not to be thought of.

From Evolution An Investigation and a Critique by Theodore Graebner