Adapid group
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Adapid group

Noun
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; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
(synonym) Adapid
(hypernym) taxonomic group, taxonomic category, taxon
(member-holonym) Primates, order Primates