Simian Synonyms

sĭmē-ən
Referring to characteristics of the animal kingdom
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. anthropoid
  2. apelike
  3. primate
An ape or monkey. Ther term simian is no longer used in scientific contexts.
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. ape
  2. monkey
  3. gorilla
  4. chimpanzee
  5. orangutan
  6. primate
  7. anthropoid

Words Related to Simian

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. animal
  2. prosimian
  3. mutant
  4. mutate

Simian Sentence Examples

  • Like Woburn these monkeys were found to be carrying simian herpes virus.

  • During a physical examination, the doctor looks for underdeveloped breasts and genitalia, webbed neck, short stature, low hairline in back, simian crease (a single crease in the palm), and abnormal development of the chest.

  • On the other hand it does not follow necessarily from a theory of evolution of species that mankind must have descended from a single stock, for the hypothesis of development admits of the argument, that several simian species may have culminated in several races of man.

  • At some point, a simian programmer had written a function which accepted inputs of the right types but returned XtCallbackProc instead of void.

  • It will be interesting to learn what part of our brain now dedicated to language was doing in our simian ancestors.

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