Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a broad and flat breast-bone: as, a latisternal ape.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective zoology Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; said of anthropoid apes.

Etymologies

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Latin latus broad + English sternal.

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