[
US
/ˈsɪmiən/
]
[ UK /sˈɪmiən/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪmiən/ ]
NOUN
- an ape or monkey
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or resembling an ape
simian features
How To Use simian In A Sentence
- All I got for my pains was a grunt that fitted well with his simian features. DEAD BEAT
- In a Star Trek-inspired turn of events, he ends up forwarding centuries through time, crashing onto an alien planet where roles between simians and humans are reversed.
- Only in recent decades have prosimians - a suborder of primates that includes lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers - begun to be studied systematically.
- Occupying a 43 square kilometre patch of lowland, it's home to 155 orphaned and displaced simians who share 99.6 per cent of our genetic make up.
- Vietnam is host to several principal kinds of primates: gibbons (lesser apes), langurs and macaques (which are both monkeys), and lorises (which are prosimians).
- Central to concerns over bushmeat are fears that carcasses can contain simian foaming virus, something scientists say can jump to humans if they eat the meat.
- ` beelike, 'simian ` apelike' and vermian ` wormlike. ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 3
- All I got for my pains was a grunt that fitted well with his simian features. DEAD BEAT
- What we expect from them is boorish, simian behaviour that ratifies the anti-male sentiment that runs through the culture. Times, Sunday Times
- The Mongoose Lemur (scientific name Lemur mongoz) is not a mongoose at all, but a prosimian primate, a species of monkey and native only to Madagascar.