platyrhine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses
    broadnosed; platyrrhine; platyrrhinic; platyrhinian; platyrrhinian.

WordNet

Plat"y*rhine adjective
Etymology
Platy + Gr. , , nose.
Definitions
  1. (Anat.) Having the nose broad; -- opposed to leptorhine. -- n. (Zoöl.) One of the Platyrhini.

Webster 1913