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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| simian |
| SYLLABICATION: | sim·i·an |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  s m  - n |
| ADJECTIVE: | Relating to, characteristic of, or resembling an ape or a monkey. |
| NOUN: | An ape or a monkey. |
| ETYMOLOGY: | From Latin s mia, ape, probably from smus, snub-nosed, from Greek smos.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. | |
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