simia

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simia - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Simia \Sim"i*a\, n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed,
     snub-nosed, Gr. ???.] (Zool.)
     A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of
     numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually
     restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.
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