Hylobatid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Hylobatid is a noun meaning (zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.
Meaning
(zoology) Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.
Example Sentences
However, in cercopithecoids and in hylobatids, the transverse processes are completely embedded in the septum.
The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).
In the absence of an obvious cause, it must be considered unlikely that hylobatids and great apes (including fossil great apes) would have acquired all of these characters independently.
Word Forms
- hylobatids
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hylobate, gibbon, hynobiid, hybotid, hypsibiid, hylid.
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