catarrhine

English Thesaurus

1. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	monkey,
definition	:	any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians) (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	guenon, guenon monkey,
definition	:	small slender African monkey having long hind limbs and tail and long hair around the face (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	mangabey,
definition	:	large agile arboreal monkey with long limbs and tail and white upper eyelids (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	erythrocebus patas, hussar monkey, patas,
definition	:	reddish long-tailed monkey of west Africa (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	baboon,
definition	:	large terrestrial monkeys having doglike muzzles (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	macaque,
definition	:	short-tailed monkey of rocky regions of Asia and Africa (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	langur,
definition	:	slender long-tailed monkey of Asia (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	colobus, colobus monkey,
definition	:	arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	nasalis larvatus, proboscis monkey,
definition	:	Borneo monkey having a long bulbous nose (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cercopithecidae, family cercopithecidae,
definition	:	Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey (noun.animal)

derivation	:	catarrhine, catarrhinian,
definition	:	of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all)

2. of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all)

antonym	:	leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic,
definition	:	having a long narrow nose (adj.all)

antonym	:	broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic,
definition	:	of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses (adj.all)

derivation	:	catarrhine, old world monkey,
definition	:	of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (noun.animal)

3. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (noun.animal)

derivation	:	catarrhine, catarrhinian,
definition	:	of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all)

4. of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward (adj.all)

antonym	:	leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic,
definition	:	having a long narrow nose (adj.all)

antonym	:	broadnosed, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic,
definition	:	of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses (adj.all)

derivation	:	catarrhine, old world monkey,
definition	:	of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together (noun.animal)