Home › Words › H › haplorrhinehaplorrhinehaplorrhine means any primate of the evolved clade (half of the order) which comprises all apes (including hominoids), monkeys and even (prosimian) tarsiers.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, haplorrhine ranks #3,411 of 42,749 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom Neo-Latin Haplorrhini, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “simple”) + ῥίς (rhís, “nose”).nounAny primate of the evolved clade (half of the order) which comprises all apes (including hominoids), monkeys and even (prosimian) tarsiersDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).