catarrhine

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
catarrhine /ˈkatərʌɪn/

▶adjective Zoology relating to or denoting primates of a group distinguished by having close, downwardly directed nostrils and lacking a prehensile tail, comprising the Old World monkeys, gibbons, great apes, and humans. Compare with platyrrhine.

– origin C19: from cata- + Gk rhis, rhin- ‘nose’.

'catarrhine' also found in these Oxford entries:

platyrrhine

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