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hylobatids

hylobatids is the plural of hylobatid.

Meaning of hylobatid

Noun

hylobatid (plural hylobatids)

  1. Any species of the family Hylobatidae; a gibbon.
    • The principal resemblances between pliopithecines and living hylobatids are found in the skull and dentition (Zapfe 1958).1972, Elwyn L. Simons, David R. Pilbeam, “Hominoid Paleoprimatology”, in Russell Tuttle, editor, The Functional and Evolutionary Biology of Primates, page 55

Questions about hylobatids

What is hylobatids the plural of?
Hylobatids is the plural of hylobatid.

Words near hylobatids in the dictionary

  1. hylobate
  2. hylobates
  3. hylobatian
  4. hylobatic
  5. hylobatid
  6. hylobatids
  7. hylobatine
  8. hylocitrea
  9. hylocitreas
  10. hylocomiaceous
  11. hylogenesis

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