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
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Origin and Etymology of palaeosimia
New Latin, from pale- + Latin simia ape — more at simia
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