Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or belonging to the primate suborder Haplorhini, consisting of the tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans, which characteristically have a dry area between the upper lip and the nostrils.
- noun A haplorrhine primate.
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- noun Any
primate of the evolvedclade (half of the order) which comprises allapes (includinghominoids ),monkeys and even (prosimian )tarsiers
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[New Latin Haplorhīnī, suborder name : Greek haplos, simple, single; see sem- in Indo-European roots + Greek rhīs, rhīn-, nose (from the fact that their noses typically have slitlike nostrils and lack the moist area present in strepsirrhines ).]
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From Neo-Latin Haplorrhini, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haploos, "simple") + ῥίς (rhis, "nose")
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Examples
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Darwinius stated that its two lower jaw bones were partially fused, but though this trait is seen in living haplorrhine primates it is not seen in early haplorrhine primates.
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The only way that Darwinius could be considered a haplorrhine
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