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Palaeosimia

noun
Palaeo·​simia | \ ¦pālēō, ¦palēō+\

Definition of Palaeosimia

: a genus of Miocene fossil apes from the Siwalik hills of India that resemble and are probably ancestral to the orangutan

History and Etymology for Palaeosimia

New Latin, from pale- + Latin simia ape

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