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    OMOMYID GROUP

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousinsplay

    Synonyms:

    Omomyid; Omomyid group

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

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

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

    Holonyms ("Omomyid 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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