SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does suborder Strepsirhini mean? 

• SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI (noun)
  The noun SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI has 1 sense:

1. in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs

  Familiarity information: SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBORDER STREPSIRHINI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Strepsirhini; suborder Strepsirhini

Hypernyms ("suborder Strepsirhini" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Holonyms ("suborder Strepsirhini" is a member of...):

order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)