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    ANTHROPOIDEA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Monkeys; apes; hominidsplay

    Synonyms:

    Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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