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SUBORDER ANTHROPOIDEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Monkeys; apes; hominidsplay

Synonyms:

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("suborder Anthropoidea" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "suborder 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 ("suborder 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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