ADAPID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Adapid mean? 

• ADAPID (noun)
  The noun ADAPID has 1 sense:

1. extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

  Familiarity information: ADAPID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ADAPID (noun)

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Meaning:

Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Adapid; Adapid group

Hypernyms ("Adapid" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Holonyms ("Adapid" is a member of...):

order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)