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Meaning of platyrrhine

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  platyrrhine
      adj 1: of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far
             apart or to people with broad noses [syn: {platyrrhine},
             {platyrrhinian}, {platyrhine}, {platyrhinian},
             {platyrrhinic}, {broadnosed}] [ant: {catarrhine},
             {catarrhinian}, {leptorhine}, {leptorrhine},
             {leptorrhinian}, {leptorrhinic}]
      n 1: hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated
           nostrils and long usually prehensile tails [syn: {New World
           monkey}, {platyrrhine}, {platyrrhinian}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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