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Simian   /sˈɪmiən/   Listen
Simian

adjective
1.
Relating to or resembling an ape.





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"Simian" Quotes from Famous Books



... has always existed, in every clime and age, since man left simian society; and the records of travellers show that it is to be found even among ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck
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... set to work to make good his promise of demonstrating the existence in the simian brain of the structures alleged to be exclusively human. The result was seen in his papers "On the Zoological Relations of Man with the Lower Animals" ("Natural History Review" 1861 pages 67-68); "On the Brain of ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
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... nobody had observed He was dirty and in every way disreputable in appearance, looking like an animated mummy, bearing a long rifle on his shoulder, and walking with the somewhat halting activity of a very old, yet vivacious and energetic simian. Of course it was Oncle Jason, "Oncle Jazon sui generis," as ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
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... circumstance that though, so far as our present knowledge extends, there is one structural break in the series of forms of simian brains, this hiatus does not lie between man and the man-like apes, but between the lower and the lowest simians; or, in other words, between the old-and new-world apes and monkeys, and the lemurs. Every lemur which has yet been ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
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... Cathcart for that matter. Well-dressed man and very well-preserved as to figure, but remarkably like an ourang-outang now his eyes are sunk and his eyebrows have grown so tufty."—Then he glanced anxiously at Lord Shotover to assure himself of the entire absence of simian approximations in the case of his own family.—"Oh! ah! yes," he remarked aloud, and somewhat vaguely. "Quite right, Knott. Then of course it was earlier. Record run for that season. Seldom had a better. We found a fox in the Grimshott ...
— The History of Sir Richard Calmady - A Romance • Lucas Malet
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Words linked to "Simian" :   primate, ape


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