Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun adapid_group

1 sense of adapid group

Sense 1
Adapid, Adapid group -- (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)
       => taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon -- (animal or plant group having natural relations)