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‖ Simia|ˈsɪmɪə|
Pl. simiæ |ˈsɪmɪiː|.
[L. sīmia, perh. f. sīmus, Gr. σῑµός snub-nosed, flat-nosed.]
The class of animals consisting of the apes and monkeys, and more specifically of the tailless apes only, or of certain kinds of these, as the orang-utan; also (with lower-case initial), an animal of this kind.
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v., More regularly, the word simia is the name of that kind only which has no tail. 1783Encycl. Brit. (ed. 2) X. 8166/2 The simiæ being more numerous in their species than any other animals [etc.]. 1800Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 70 It should seem rather to belong to the genus Lemur than that of Simia. 1840Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 56 The developement of brain, in all the Simiæ,..is arrested at a particular stage of advancement. 1872Darwin in Life & Lett. III. 162, I cannot at present give up my belief in the close relationship of man to the higher Simiæ. |