ANAPTOMORPHUS


Meaning of ANAPTOMORPHUS in English

əˌnaptəˈmȯrfəs, aˌ- noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from an- + Greek haptein to bind + New Latin -o- + -morphus -morphous

: a genus (the type of the family Anaptomorphidae) of extinct short-skulled large-eyed lemurs from the Eocene of No. America sometimes regarded as near the ancestral line of the anthropoids

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