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catarrhinian

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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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catarrhinian

adjective
of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward [syn: catarrhine] [ant: leptorhine, broadnosed] 
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