adapid group

1. 1.

   extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins

   SynonymsAdapid

   Broadertaxonomic group

   Part ofPrimates

Questions about adapid group

What does adapid group mean?

adapid group means "extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins".

What is another word for adapid group?

Close synonyms include Adapid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is adapid group a common word?

adapid group is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.