catarrhine

[ kat-uh-rahyn, ‐rin ]

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the subdivision of simians that comprises Old World monkeys and apes, including humans.

noun

1. a catarrhine animal.

catarrhine

/ ˈkætəˌraɪn /

adjective

1. (of apes and Old World monkeys) having the nostrils set close together and opening to the front of the face
2. Alsoleptorrhine (of humans) having a thin or narrow nose

noun

1. an animal or person with this characteristic

Word History and Origins

Origin of catarrhine¹

First recorded in 1860–65; from New Latin Catarrhīnī, plural of catarrhīnus, from Greek katárrhīn “hook-nosed,” equivalent to kata- “down” + -rhīn “-nosed,” adjective derivative of rhī́s “nose, snout”; cata-, rhino- ( def ); haplorhine ( def ), platyrrhine ( def ), strepsirrhine ( def )

Word History and Origins

Origin of catarrhine¹

C19: from New Latin Catarrhina (for sense 1), all ultimately from Greek katarrhin having a hooked nose, from kata- down + rhis nose

Example Sentences

Man's an Anthropoid—he cannot help that, you know— First evoluted from Pongos of old; He's but a branch of the catarrhine cat, you know— Monkey I mean—that's an ape with a cold.

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That this "tailless, catarrhine, anthropoid ape" should have had anything resembling a religion, is, of course, not to be thought of.

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Man is not only a vertebrate, a mammal, and a primate, but he belongs, as a genus, to the catarrhine family of apes.

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Hence in the genealogy of the mammals we must derive man immediately from the catarrhine group, and locate the origin of the human race in the Old World.

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Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.

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