cercopithecoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).
Example Sentences
- "In East Africa the first evidence of cercopithecoid diversity appeared in the Pliocene at sites such as Lothagam, East Turkana, and Laetoli where papionins were the dominant cercopithecoids."
- "Concerning systematics, while extinct monkeys from the early and middle Miocene of Africa are widely accepted as true cercopithecoids, there remains some discussion as to their precise phylogenetic position."
- "The latest major anthropoid radiation, and in some ways the most successful, was that of the Old World monkeys, the Cercopithecoidea. Cercopithecoids appear to have originated from early African catarrhines during the late Oligocene gap in the Old World fossil record."