Sim"i*a (?), n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. .] 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.

 

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