catarrhine
Adjective
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Of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (synset 301411710)
same as: catarrhinian
Noun
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Of Africa or Arabia or Asia;
Having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (synset 102487104)is a type of: monkey - any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)subtypes:- guenon, guenon monkey - small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face
- mangabey - large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids
- erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas - reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa
- baboon - large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles
- macaque - short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa
- langur - slender long-tailed monkey of Asia
- colobus, colobus monkey - arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs
- nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey - Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose
belongs to: cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkeysame as: old world monkey
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