ADJECTIVE
- of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward
NOUN
- of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
How To Use catarrhine In A Sentence
- No catarrhine has a prehensile tail, which means one crutch less. The Human Brain
- They are what are called catarrhine Apes -- that is, their nostrils have a narrow partition and look downwards; and, furthermore, their arms are always longer than their legs, the difference being sometimes greater and sometimes less; so that if the four were arranged in the order of the length of their arms in proportion to that of their legs, we should have this series -- Orang (1 4 Lectures and Essays
- Catarrhines (gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang) are in every respect slighter than the corresponding differences between the highest and the lowest Catarrhines (white-nosed monkey, macaco, baboon, etc.). The Evolution of Man — Volume 2
- Why put platyrrhine monkeys in South America only, and catarrhine monkeys in Africa and Asia only? THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
- With the exception of a few anomalous primate genomes, such as the hylobatids, most of the catarrhine primates appear to possess very large, conserved ancient linkage groups.
- Among the ancestor of the last, he searches for the common progenitors, from which again two branches started -- on the one hand the ignoble branches of the catarrhine species of apes, always remaining lower in {44} development, to which also belong the anthropomorphous apes, like the orang outang and gibbon in Asia, the gorilla and chimpanzee in Africa; on the other hand, that branch which represents the ascent of animals to man. The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality
- Theoretical modeling of fruit spectra into the trichromatic color space of catarrhine primates yielded similar results.
- More than that, O'Reilly is apparently acting like a frenzied, territorial catarrhine: Archive 2007-01-01
- Herbert Spencer's "line of individuation," must begin with the lancelet and its disputed head, and end in the Catarrhine or Old World monkey. Life: Its True Genesis
- However, it may represent a peroneus digiti V superior or longus, such as seen in catarrhine monkeys.