Quadrumania (Lat., 'four-handed'), in the zoological system of Cuvier an order of Mammalia, which he placed next Bimana, and which contained the animals most nearly resembling man in their form and anatomical character—viz. the monkey and lemur families. See ANTHROPOID APES, MAMMALS, MONKEYS.
Quadrumania
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 516
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