Definitions for catarrhine

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catarrhine cat·ar·rhine

Spelling: [kat-uh-rahyn]

IPA: /ˈkæt əˌraɪn/

Catarrhine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 630 anagrams from letters in catarrhine (aacehinrrt).

Definitions for catarrhine

noun

1. a catarrhine animal.

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the group Catarrhini, comprising humans, anthropoid apes, and Old World monkeys, having the nostrils close together and opening downward and a nonprehensile, often greatly reduced or vestigial tail.

Origin of catarrhine

1860-65; New Latin Catarrhini, plural of catarrhinus Greek katarrhīn hook-nosed, equivalent to kata- cata- + -rhīn -nosed, adj. derivative of rhī́s nose, snout

Examples for catarrhine

catarrhine monkeys have existed, we know with certainty, since the Miocene.

The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.

Man is descended directly from one series of extinct catarrhine ancestors.

As they belong to the catarrhine group, their nose has a narrow partition between the nostrils, which are directed downwards.