Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of anthropoid apes: same as
Simia .
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Examples
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He then asked what a pithecus was, and no one knew even that, although he had quoted the poet Himnitz, ‘The weakwitted pithecus that mocks the other beasts.’
Virgin Soil 2003
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He then asked what a pithecus was, and no one knew even that, although he had quoted the poet Himnitz, 'The weakwitted pithecus that mocks the other beasts.'
Virgin Soil Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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Mr Hooker at once recognised it as a flying lemur, the learned name for which is _Galeo-pithecus_.
In the Eastern Seas William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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