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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together;
[syn: Old World monkey, catarrhine]


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward;
[syn: catarrhine, catarrhinian]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Catarrhine \Cat"ar*rhine\, n. [Gr. kata`rris with hanging or curved nose; kata` down + "ri`s, "rino`s nose.] (Zool.) One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

catarrhine adj 1: of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward [syn: catarrhine, catarrhinian] [ant: broadnosed, leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic] n 1: of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together [syn: Old World monkey, catarrhine]