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ANTHROPOIDEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Monkeys; apes; hominids
Synonyms:
Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Anthropoidea" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Anthropoidea"):
anthropoid ape (any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae)
Hominoidea; superfamily Hominoidea (anthropoid apes and human beings)
family Hominidae; Hominidae (modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man)
family Pongidae; Pongidae (usually considered as comprising orangutans; gorillas; chimpanzees; and sometimes gibbons)
family Hylobatidae; Hylobatidae (used in some classifications for the lesser apes (gibbons and siamangs); sometimes considered a subfamily of Pongidae)
Cercopithecidae; family Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys: guenon; baboon; colobus monkey; langur; macaque; mandrill; mangabey; patas; proboscis monkey)
Platyrrhini; superfamily Platyrrhini (New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin)
Holonyms ("Anthropoidea" is a member of...):
order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)
