what does Adapid group mean?
ADAPID GROUP as NOUN
- Meaning
- 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 co
Synonym(s)
Hypernyms(s) Adapid group is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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