单词 | catarrhine |
释义 | catarrhine (once / 193760 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY catarrhine USAGE EXAMPLESIn the catarrhine primates, like macaques, it is generally absent, or reduced, with some indeterminate function. Slate(Aug 25, 2014) The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae. Weismann, August, Evolution in Modern Thought(2010) That this "tailless, catarrhine, anthropoid ape" should have had anything resembling a religion, is, of course, not to be thought of. Graebner, Theodore, Evolution—An Investigation and a Cr...(2010) 1adj of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward Syn|Ant catarrhinian leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic having a long narrow nose broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinicof or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses 2n of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together Syn|Hypo|Hyper Old World monkey guenon, guenon monkey small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face mangabeylarge agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids Erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patasreddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa baboonlarge terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles macaqueshort-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa langurslender long-tailed monkey of Asia colobus, colobus monkeyarboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs Nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkeyBorneo monkey having a long bulbous nose Cercopithecus talapoin, talapoinsmallest guenon monkey; of swampy central and west African forests Cercopithecus aethiops, grivetwhite and olive green East African monkey with long white tufts of hair beside the face Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus, vervet, vervet monkeySouth African monkey with black face and hands African green monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus, green monkeycommon savannah monkey with greenish-grey back and yellow tail Papio ursinus, chacma, chacma baboongreyish baboon of southern and eastern Africa Mandrillus sphinx, mandrillbaboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters Mandrillus leucophaeus, drillsimilar to the mandrill but smaller and less brightly colored Macaca mulatta, rhesus, rhesus monkeyof southern Asia; used in medical research Macaca radiata, bonnet macaque, bonnet monkey, capped macaque, crown monkeyIndian macaque with a bonnet-like tuft of hair Barbary ape, Macaca sylvanatailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of northwestern Africa and Gibraltar Macaca irus, crab-eating macaque, croo monkeymonkey of southeast Asia, Borneo and the Philippines Presbytes entellus, Semnopithecus entellus, entellus, hanumanlangur of southern Asia; regarded as sacred in India Colobus guereza, guerezaa colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) |
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