Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or belonging to the primate infraorder Platyrrhini, characterized by widely separated nostrils that generally open to the side, and including the New World monkeys such as the spider monkeys, marmosets, and titis.
- adjective Having a broad flat nose.
- noun A platyrrhine monkey.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Broad-nosed, as any American monkey; belonging to the Platyrrhini.
- In craniometry, having a flat nose; having a nasal index of from 51.1 (Frankfort agreement) or 53 (Broca) to 58.
- noun A platyrrhine monkey.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective zoology Having a broad, flat
nose - noun zoology Any
New World monkey of thePlatyrrhini
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses
- noun hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word platyrrhine.
Examples
-
Why put platyrrhine monkeys in South America only, and catarrhine monkeys in Africa and Asia only?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
-
Why put platyrrhine monkeys in South America only, and catarrhine monkeys in Africa and Asia only?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
-
Why did an entire sub-order of monkeys, the platyrrhine monkeys, end up in South America and nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
-
Why did an entire sub-order of monkeys, the platyrrhine monkeys, end up in South America and nowhere else?
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
-
A brunette girl, brachicephalic and rather platyrrhine ....
Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914
-
But this agreeable sight was spoiled at once by the quite horrible words Nycticebidoe, platyrrhine, catarrhine, from which I raised my eyes to see him coming at me with two pamphlets, and scolding as he came.
Lady Baltimore Owen Wister 1899
-
The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.
Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880
-
The "evidence" showing an African origin of the platyrrhine monkeys of South America is, first, the ocean currents of that time would have facilitated a crossing from Africa to South America and not from North America (Tarling, 1982; cited in Fleagle, 1988).
-
The first fossil platyrrhine, Branisella boliviana was found during the late Oligocene, so it is possible that platyrrhines first came to South America during the middle Oligocene (Fleagle, 1988).
-
Summarily of mallow arthrography this coadjutor is sequentially a great karabiner clotheshorse for keen platyrrhine percina.
Rational Review 2009
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.