CATARRHINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catarrhine mean? 

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

1. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

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

• CATARRHINE (adjective)
  The adjective CATARRHINE has 1 sense:

1. of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward

  Familiarity information: CATARRHINE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATARRHINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

catarrhine; Old World monkey

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

monkey (any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catarrhine"):

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)

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

Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)

Derivation:

catarrhinian (of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward)

• CATARRHINE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward

Synonyms:

catarrhine; catarrhinian

Antonym:

leptorrhine (having a long narrow nose)

platyrrhine (of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses)