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Definition of Platyrrhini
1. Noun. New World monkeys: capuchin; douroucouli; howler monkey; saki; spider monkey; squirrel monkey; titi; uakari; woolly monkey; marmoset; tamarin.
Generic synonyms: Mammal Family
Group relationships: Anthropoidea, Suborder Anthropoidea
Member holonyms: New World Monkey, Platyrrhine, Platyrrhinian, Callithricidae, Family Callithricidae, Cebidae, Family Cebidae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Platyrrhini
Literary usage of Platyrrhini
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"They are now, however, more usually referred to the Platyrrhini, though placed
in a separate family. ... The Platyrrhini are only found in America, ..."
2. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"They also differ from the other Platyrrhini by having claws on the fingers of
their hands and the toes of their feet, not nails like Man and the other Apes. ..."
3. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"... nostrils narrower than in the Platyrrhini / in possessing a bony meatus
auditorius; in the The Platyrrhini occur only in the Austro-Columbian province, ..."
4. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Small thickly furred Platyrrhini with a flat nail on the great toe only, ...
Platyrrhini with flat nails on all toes : three molar teeth on each side. ..."
5. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"They are now, however, more usually referred to the Platyrrhini, though placed
in a separate family. ... The Platyrrhini are only found in America, ..."
6. The History of Creation: Or, The Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1883)
"They also differ from the other Platyrrhini by having claws on the fingers of
their hands and the toes of their feet, not nails like Man and the other Apes. ..."
7. A Manual of the Anatomy of Vertebrated Animals by Thomas Henry Huxley (1895)
"... nostrils narrower than in the Platyrrhini / in possessing a bony meatus
auditorius; in the The Platyrrhini occur only in the Austro-Columbian province, ..."
8. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"Small thickly furred Platyrrhini with a flat nail on the great toe only, ...
Platyrrhini with flat nails on all toes : three molar teeth on each side. ..."
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