||Sim"i*a (?), n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] (Zoöl.) A Linnæan genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang- outang.

||Sim"i*a (?), n. [L., an ape; cf. simus flatnosed, snub-nosed, Gr. &?;&?;&?;.] (Zoöl.) A Linnæan genus of Quadrumana which included the types of numerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted to the genus which includes the orang- outang.

Latin
• a monkey
  
• an ape