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catarrhine

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cat⋅ar⋅rhine

  [kat-uh-rahyn]
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–adjective
1. belonging or pertaining to the group Catarrhini, comprising humans, anthropoid apes, and Old World monkeys, having the nostrils close together and opening downward and a nonprehensile, often greatly reduced or vestigial tail.
–noun
2. a catarrhine animal.
Also, cat⋅ar⋅rhin⋅i⋅an  [kat-uh-rin-ee-uhn] .

Origin:
1860–65; < NL Catarrhini, pl. of catarrhinus < Gk katarrhīn hook-nosed, equiv. to kata- cata- + -rhīn -nosed, adj. deriv. of rhs nose, snout
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cat·ar·rhine   (kāt'ə-rīn', -rĭn')   
adj.  Of or being a group of primates including the Old World monkeys, apes, and humans, characterized by nostrils that are close together and directed frontward or downward.
n.  A catarrhine primate, such as a gorilla.
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