Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the family Cercopithecidæ; belonging to that group of catarrhine Quadrumana which contains the tailed monkeys of the old world.
- noun One of the Cercopithecidæ.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology Any Old World
monkey of the genusCercopithecus
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4 Based on its primitive characteristics, Louis identified the tooth as that of a cercopithecoid a monkey and sent it along with the other Laetoli fossils to the British Museum of Natural History.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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4 Based on its primitive characteristics, Louis identified the tooth as that of a cercopithecoid a monkey and sent it along with the other Laetoli fossils to the British Museum of Natural History.
Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995
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