a. [f. prec. + -AL.] = QUADRUMANOUS.
1871. Daily News, 17 March, 4/5. The habitation of our quadrumanal relatives, always a diverting colony, has now a profound interest for students of the Darwinian hypothesis.
1882. Owen, in Longm. Mag., I. 67. The lowest … variety of the Bimanal order differs from the Quadrumanal one in the order of appearance … of the second or ‘permanent’ set [of teeth].
