Modifies a noun

• virus: Like Woburn these monkeys were found to be carrying simian herpes virus.

• friend: You'll win a Monkey adoption pack, plus a pair of tickets to Drayton Manor Zoo to visit your simian friend.

• retrovirus: One report indicates that a simian retrovirus akin to HIV has crossed the species barrier to human hunters.

• programmer: At some point, a simian programmer had written a function which accepted inputs of the right types but returned XtCallbackProc instead of void.

• ancestor: It will be interesting to learn what part of our brain now dedicated to language was doing in our simian ancestors.

• creature: I saw that it was the simian creature who had met the launch upon the beach.