suborder Anthropoidea

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1.suborder Anthropoidea - monkeys; apes; hominids Anthropoideaanimal order - the order of animalsorder Primates, Primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beingsanthropoid ape - any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and HylobatidaeHominoidea, superfamily Hominoidea - anthropoid apes and human beingsfamily Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of manfamily Pongidae, Pongidae - usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbonsfamily Hylobatidae, Hylobatidae - used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of PongidaeCercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae - Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkeyPlatyrrhini, superfamily Platyrrhini - New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin