prosimian in English

noun
1
a primitive primate of a group that includes the lemurs, lorises, bushbabies, and tarsiers.
The celebrated eighteenth-century systematizer Carolus Linnaeus also located people firmly within the animal kingdom, constructing the primate order to accommodate humans, apes, monkeys, prosimians , and bats.
adjective
1
of or relating to the prosimians.
‘If complexity of social structure is a pressure to develop certain aspects of intelligence, we should expect ring-tailed lemurs to surpass all other prosimian species on tasks that tap those aspects of intelligence,’ she said.

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1. If more evidence piles up in favor of prosimian social learning, it's almost a given that the ability first emerged before prosimian and simian primates split about 63 million years ago, Santos said.

2. Hypernyms ("Angwantibo" is a kind of): lemur (large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails)

3. Angwantibo definition: a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

4. What does Angwantibo mean? A small, rare prosimian primate (Arctocebus calabarensis) of W African forests, with a long, sharp nose and a small tail

5. Angwantibo: 1 n a kind of lemur Synonyms: Arctocebus calabarensis , golden potto Type of: lemur large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails

6. Angwantibo (æŋˈɡwæntɪˌbəʊ) n, pl -bos (Animals) a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises)

7. Angwantibo n pl , -bos a rare gold-coloured prosimian primate of tropical Africa, Arctocebus calabarensis, having digits that are specialized as a pair of pincers for climbing: family Lorisidae (lorises), (Also called) golden potto (C19: from Efik)