simian
Example Sentences
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Almost everyone reading this will recognize the slender, ponytailed figure who became a close friend and protector of the simian species most closely related to ours.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2025
He insults himself in the first minute of the movie, and from then on wears his humiliations like a Purple Heart pinned to his hairy, simian chest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Athapol said people shouldn’t see monkeys as villians, saying that the authorities might have not been efficient enough in their work to control the simian population.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
The simian ones came from field recordings made as part of previous research.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 19, 2023
A pathologist at the Institute had inspected the meat very carefully and had given it a tentative diagnosis of simian hemorrhagic fever—harmless to humans, lethal to monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Vocabulary lists containing simian
"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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"The Monkey's Paw," Vocabulary from the short story
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