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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
simian
adjective
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▪ Actually, Rutledge is a thief who employs his abused, trained ape Dunston as a simian cat burglar.
▪ All I got for my pains was a grunt that fitted well with his simian features.
▪ Many were surprised by Williams's appearance, which was simian and scarlet-faced, slightly boozy.
▪ Micky's brow corrugated in a simian frown.
▪ She is not strictly beautiful but has a simian intensity.
▪ They stared, they watched, they were simian.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simian

Simian \Sim"i*an\, a. [L. simia an ape.] (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the family Simiad[ae], which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike. -- n. Any Old World monkey or ape.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
simian

"characteristic of monkeys or apes," c.1600, from Latin simia "ape," from simus "snub-nosed," from Greek simos "snub-nosed" (like the Scythians), also a masculine proper name, of unknown origin. Biological meaning "pertaining to monkeys" is from 1863. The noun meaning "an ape or monkey" first is attested in 1880.

Wiktionary
simian

a. 1 Of or pertaining to apes; apely. 2 Bearing resemblance to an ape. n. An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid.

WordNet
simian
  1. adj. relating to or resembling an ape; "simian features"

  2. n. an ape or monkey

Wikipedia
Simian

The simians ( infraorder Simiiformes, Anthropoidea) are the higher primates: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines.

The simian line and the tarsier line diverged about 60 million years ago (i.e., during cenozoic era). Forty million years ago, simians from Africa colonized South America, giving rise to the New World monkeys. The remaining simians (catarrhines) split 25 million years ago into apes and Old World monkeys.

Simian (band)

Simian were an English electronic rock band, formed in Manchester in 2000.

Simian (disambiguation)

Simian refers to the infraorder Simiiformes, the higher primates: the monkeys and the apes, including humans.

Simian may also refer to:

  • Simian (band), an English electro-rock band
  • Simian Records, a record company founded by Elijah Wood
  • Simian (software) , open-source Mac OS X software deployment solution based on App Engine and the Munki open-source project.
  • Simian Mountain, Jiangjin, Chongqing
  • Simians (Chinese poetry), monkeys, gibbons, and other primates in Chinese poetry.

Șimian may refer to several places in Romania:

  • Șimian, Bihor, a commune in Bihor County
  • Șimian, Mehedinți, a commune in Mehedinţi County
  • Șimian (island) , an island on the Danube
Șimian (island)

Șimian is a river island on the Danube belonging to Romania, just downstream of the city of Turnu Severin and overlooking the town of Şimian. The island is home to the reconstructed fortress relocated from the historic Ada Kaleh island, when it was due to be submerged by the Iron Gate I dam building in 1968. For that reason, it is also known as the "New Ada Kaleh", although the ambitious resettlement plan has never been completed.

During the construction of the Trajan's Bridge in the 2nd century AD, the island served as a natural base for water dividing dams.

Simian (software)

Simian is a Google built, open source, enterprise-class Mac OS X software deployment utility with App Engine-based hosting and a client based on the Munki open-source project.

Simian was released as open-source on January 29, 2011 at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, CA. The original open-source release was also announced on the Google Open Source Blog.

Simian (graphic novel)

SIMIAN is a graphic novel trilogy written and illustrated by Vikram Balagopal, with parts one and two published as a single book by HarperCollins Publishers India in May 2014. The book launch was held on May 13 in New Delhi at the India Habitat Centre.

SIMIAN received the award for Best Graphic Novel of the year 2014 at Comic Con India held in Bangalore on April 4, 2015

Usage examples of "simian".

In the booze-lined defile under the bendy mirror, Fat Vince and Fat Paul, two generations of handyman-and-bouncer talent, assembled beer crates with simian stoop.

Chainer recognized Deidre, the long-nailed door guard, but the other, more simian Cabalist was unknown to him.

The simian Cabalist continued to wrestle with the lifeless reptile until he realized Deidre had ended his fun.

She rapped the simian Cabalist with her knuckles and gestured to the door.

The officer sprang forward and ran the simian through with his good hand before the Cabalist could get clear of the soldier he had just killed.

I wonder how, in their canons of beauty, the Latins could possibly have inscribed Frons minima, underrating the forehead, the sublimest feature in the human face, the great distinction between our countenance and that of our Simian prototypes.

As a partially paralyzed Walker looked on, the creature administering the ophthalmological treatment to its ocularly challenged companion noticed the astounded simian gawking at them from the confines of its small, flexible sanctuary.

Rundi: a brown-gold furred simian, notable for its plush pelage and its frenetic viciousness.

Judah walks days, crosses a trestle bridge aswarm with workers and Remade brachiating from extending simian arms.

The simian faces reminded him of Sarina in the riverain forest to the north.

The meteorologist had an amusing habit of withdrawing his simian head in a cringe.

Those monkeys had been inflected with simian fever and would have died anyway.

It evolved into a reptile, then a primitive mammal, then an insectivorous creature, then a presimian, then a simian, and eventually into the sapient bipedal stage, and then into modern man!

Griff stopped at a cage specially reserved for Tongo, and noted that the prize simian was absent.

It was only remotely manlike, a grotesque hybrid of simian and gargoyle.