a. and sb. Also quadruman (-mæn). [a. F. quadrumane (Buffon): see QUADRUMANA, and next.]

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  A.  adj. = QUADRUMANOUS.

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1835.  Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., II. xvii. 213. Cuvier’s second Order of Mammalians, which he names Quadrumane or four-handed.

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1864.  Spectator, No. 1875. 650. The lemurine—and consequently quadrumane … affinities of Chiromys.

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1867.  H. Bushnell, Moral Uses Dark Things, 303. What now shall we say of these quadruman people?

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  B.  sb. One of the QUADRUMANA.

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1828.  in Webster.

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1835.  Kirby, Hab. & Inst. Anim., I. ii. 71. What Zoologists call the Quadrumanes, or Four-handed beasts.

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1856.  W. Clark, trans. Van der Hoeven’s Zool., II. 605. The Quadrumanes and Ruminants.

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1882.  Owen, in Longm. Mag., I. 66. Points of approximation in cranial and dental structure of the highest Quadrumane to the lowest Bimane.

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