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catarrhine
[ kat-uh-rahyn, 鈥恟颈苍 ]
adjective
- belonging or pertaining to the subdivision of simians that comprises Old World monkeys and apes, including humans.
noun
- a catarrhine animal.
catarrhine
/ 藞办忙迟蓹藢谤补瑟苍 /
adjective
- (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
- Alsoleptorrhine (of humans) having a thin or narrow nose
noun
- an animal or person with this characteristic
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of catarrhine1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of catarrhine1
Example Sentences
Man's an Anthropoid鈥攈e cannot help that, you know鈥 First evoluted from Pongos of old; He's but a branch of the catarrhine cat, you know鈥 Monkey I mean鈥攖hat's an ape with a cold.
That this "tailless, catarrhine, anthropoid ape" should have had anything resembling a religion, is, of course, not to be thought of.
Man is not only a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate, but he belongs, as a genus, to the catarrhine family of apes.
Hence in the genealogy of the mammals we must derive man immediately from the catarrhine group, and locate the origin of the human race in the Old World.
Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.
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