belonging or pertaining to the subdivision of simians that comprises New World monkeys, characterized by noses flatter than those of other simians and with widely separated, side-facing nostrils.Compare catarrhine.
n. 名词 noun
Anthropology. a platyrrhine hominin.
a platyrrhine animal.
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The platyrrhine and catarrhine monkeys have their primitive ancestor among extinct forms of the Lemuridae.
This family embraces the typical Platyrrhine Monkeys, and to it belongs the great majority of the American species.
From this feature these Monkeys have been described by some naturalists as Platyrrhine or Megarrhine.
The skull is dolichocephalic with an average cranial index of 72, prognathous and platyrrhine.