They are what are called catarrhine Apes — that is, their nostrils have.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays] Reference

They are what are called catarrhine Apes -- that is, their nostrils have a narrow partition and look downwards; and, furthermore, their arms are always longer than their legs, the difference being sometimes greater and sometimes less; so that if the four were arranged in the order of the length of their arms in proportion to that of their legs, we should have this series -- Orang (1 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

No catarrhine has a prehensile tail, which means one crutch less.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

More than that, O'Reilly is apparently acting like a frenzied, territorial catarrhine.    From Wordnik.com.  [O'Reilly The Raging Catarrhine] Reference

And yet there are distinctions of considerable im - portance between apes and man, enough difference so that, quite fairly and without too much self-love on our own part, man may be put into a third catarrhine family all by himself, Hominidae (hoh-min'ih-dee; "man" L).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

The new fossil catarrhine, Saadanius hijazensis, dates from.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Aegyptopithecus, a primitive catarrhine from the early Oligocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Major early Oligocene to early middle Miocene Afro-Arabian catarrhine primate sites.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

S. hijazensis is a catarrhine-a member of the common group before the two lineages split.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution in Modern Thought] Reference

Thus he would not object to relationship with a tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

They found that knowledge of catarrhine taxonomy progressed randomly, making little difference to the overall structure of the family tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

The catarrhine family tree -- one of two primate lineages, and the one that includes humans -- regularly attracts requests for revision from palaeontologists bearing fossils such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

But this agreeable sight was spoiled at once by the quite horrible words Nycticebidoe, platyrrhine, catarrhine, from which I raised my eyes to see him coming at me with two pamphlets, and scolding as he came.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Baltimore] Reference

The new fossil catarrhine, Saadanius hijazensis, dates from 29 million to 28 million years ago and lacks the specialized features that distinguish modern apes and Old World monkeys, suggesting that the split had not yet occurred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

For example, Tarver says, beyond the extant catarrhine species, there is only one known fossil of a chimpanzee species and no gorilla fossils, so more of those might be of greater value for understanding primate evolution than smaller additions to the large body of hominid fossils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American] Reference

A tailless catarrhine anthropoid ape, descended from a monad or a primal ascidian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference

APES AND MEN The second catarrhine family is Pongidae fpon'jih-dee), which includes the animals known as "apes.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Human Brain]

Actually, an obsessed, raging, territorial catarrhine.    From Wordnik.com.  [O'Reilly The Raging Catarrhine] Reference

While, however, the other animal cells in their transformations remain stationary here and there, either at the boundary line of worms, fishes, amphibia, reptiles, or mammals, the one cell which was destined to become man moves on to the stage of the tailed catarrhine apes, then of the tailless apes, and without staying here it irresistibly strides towards its original goal, and only stops where it is destined to stop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour] Reference