catarrhine

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: cat=arrh=ine

CIDE DICTIONARY

catarrhine, n. [Gr. kata`rris with hanging or curved nose; kata` down + "ri`s, "rino`s nose.].

 One of the Catarrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

catarrhine, adj. & n. Zool.
--adj. (of primates) having nostrils close together, and directed downwards, e.g. a baboon, chimpanzee, or human.
--n. such an animal (cf. PLATYRRHINE).

Etymology

CATA- + rhis rhinos nose