ADAPID GROUP

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Meaning:

Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

Synonyms:

Adapid; Adapid group

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Adapid group" is a kind of...):

taxon; taxonomic category; taxonomic group (animal or plant group having natural relations)

Holonyms ("Adapid group" is a member of...):

order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)

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