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Webster 1913 Edition
Simia
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Sim′i-a
,Noun.
[L., an ape; cf.
simus
flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. [GREEK][GREEK][GREEK].] (Zool.)
A Linnaean genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang-outang.