Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or belonging to the primate suborder Anthropoidea, which consists of the New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans.
- adjective Resembling a human, especially in shape or outward appearance.
- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a nonhuman ape; apelike.
- noun A primate of the suborder Anthropoidea.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the superfamily Anthropoidea; man-like; human or simian in a zoölogical sense: applied to all monkeys as well as to man, as distinguished from the lemuroid or prosimian Primates.
- More specifically, resembling man, or man-like, as one of the higher monkeys or apes, as distinguished from lower monkeys: applied to the apes of the family Simiidæ, as restricted to include only the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang, and gibbon, these being commonly known as the anthropoid apes.
- noun An anthropoid animal; one of the higher monkeys; an ape.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance
- adjective having characteristics of an ape
- noun An anthropoid animal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective resembling apes
- noun any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
- adjective resembling human beings
- noun person who resembles a nonhuman primate
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Examples
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I’m just curious to see if the term anthropoid is gone. vandalhooch
Is One "King Kong" Movie worth 1000 Darwin Exhibits? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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The Yorubans at once recognize the picture; they call the anthropoid “Nákí;” and they declare that, when it seizes a man, it tears the fingers asunder.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The Yorubans at once recognize the picture; they call the anthropoid "Nákí;" and they declare that, when it seizes a man, it tears the fingers asunder.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Our closest primate relatives are the Pongidae, the so-called anthropoid apes, including the chimpanzee and the gorilla.
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In one of these tombs was also inclosed a monolithic sarcophagus of white marble of the form called anthropoid and measuring 2.15 m. in length by 0.67 in width.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
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But there is one group of this great tribe in which this resemblance is greatest, and they have hence been called the anthropoid or man-like apes.
Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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I'm doing this because it'll reflect badly on my capabilities as an instructor if the Patrol finds out what kind of anthropoid I let loose as a Courier.
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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It has always been so, from the time of the first pre-human anthropoid crossing a mountain-divide in quest of better berry - bushes beyond, down to the latest Slovak, arriving on our shores to-day, to go to work in the coal-mines of Pennsylvania.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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"The skull," he confidently asserted, "is that of a young anthropoid ape," and many of his colleagues agreed.
Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011
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The animators have created beings that are anthropoid-like but not exactly humanoid.
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