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round-faced, a.
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1. Having a round face.
1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer v. ii, He was pretty tall, round-faced, and one..I ne'er had seen before. 1678Butler Hud. ii. iii. 713 The Roman Senate..Did cause their Clergy..The round-fac'd Prodigy [sc. an owl] t'avert. 1832Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 530 A round-faced man, of rather low stature. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 228 The edges are..trimmed with a round-faced hammer. 1888Riverside Nat. Hist. V. 517 On the island of Formosa also occurs an allied round-faced species.
2. round-faced macaque, round-faced monkey, the Formosan rock-macaque (Macaca cyclopis), having a flat, round face, and resembling the Bengal macaque.
1872Proc. Zool. Soc. 777 It would seem that our Round-faced Monkey, in the proportionate dimensions of fore limb to spine's length, presents closest agreement with man. 1887in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. s.v. |