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