SIMIAN in a Sentence

Learn SIMIAN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

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1. Lemurs are nocturnal mammals and have many simian characteristics, although they are less intelligent than monkeys.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIMIAN
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simian
 a.  like an ape or monkey
Classic Sentence:
1  It represented an alert, sharp-featured simian man, with thick eyebrows and a very peculiar projection of the lower part of the face, like the muzzle of a baboon.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
Example Sentence:
1  Lemurs are nocturnal mammals and have many simian characteristics, although they are less intelligent than monkeys.