Adapid

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adapid \Adapid\ n.
     1. 1 extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on
        leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30
        to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably
        include the lemurs and lorises; some authorities consider
        them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them


        only cousins.
  
     Syn: Adapid group
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Adapid
       n : extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on
           leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30
           to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably
           include the lemurs; some authorities consider them
           ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only
           cousins [syn: {Adapid group}]