omomyid
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English
Noun
omomyid (plural omomyids)
- (zoology) Any member of the family †Omomyidae, a diverse group of extinct primates.
- 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 64:
- In Europe, beavers, hamsters, hedgehogs and rhinoceroses are migrating in from Asia, wiping out native European groups like omomyids, the nocturnal relatives of tarsiers and monkeys, and several families of hoofed mammal.