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catarrhine

[ kat-uh-rahyn, 鈥恟颈苍 ]

adjective

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


noun

  1. a catarrhine animal.

catarrhine

/ 藞办忙迟蓹藢谤补瑟苍 /

adjective

  1. (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
  2. Alsoleptorrhine (of humans) having a thin or narrow nose
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. an animal or person with this characteristic
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of catarrhine1

First recorded in 1860鈥65; from New Latin 颁补迟补谤谤丑墨苍墨, plural of 肠补迟补谤谤丑墨苍耻蝉, from Greek 办补迟谩谤谤丑墨苍 鈥渉ook-nosed,鈥 equivalent to kata- 鈥渄own鈥 + -谤丑墨苍 鈥-nosed,鈥 adjective derivative of 谤丑墨虂蝉 鈥渘ose, snout鈥; cata-, rhino- ( def ); haplorhine ( def ), platyrrhine ( def ), strepsirrhine ( def )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of catarrhine1

C19: from New Latin Catarrhina (for sense 1), all ultimately from Greek katarrhin having a hooked nose, from kata- down + rhis nose
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Example Sentences

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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.

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

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Man is not only a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate, but he belongs, as a genus, to the catarrhine family of apes.

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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.

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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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