platyrhine

2 definitions found

platyrhine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Platyrhine \Plat"y*rhine\, a. [Platy + Gr. ?, ?, nose.] (Anat.)
     Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine. -- n.
     (Zool.) One of the Platyrhini.
     [1913 Webster]

platyrhine - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  platyrhine
      adj 1: of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far
             apart or to people with broad noses [syn: platyrrhine,
             platyrrhinian, platyrhine, platyrhinian,
             platyrrhinic, broadnosed] [ant: catarrhine,
             catarrhinian, leptorhine, leptorrhine,
             leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic]