pliopithecoid

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From scientific Latin Pliopithecoidea (superfamily name).

Noun[edit]

pliopithecoid (plural pliopithecoids)

  1. A member of the extinct superfamily of catarrhine primates, Pliopithecoidea.
    • 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 110:
      Pliopithecoids persisted in Europe, Asia and Africa long after the first true apes and Old World monkeys appeared, and the fossil of one was the specimen Darwin was referred to.
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