Anthropoid
adj, noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An anthropoid animal.
"The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes."
- 2 any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids wordnet
- 3 person who resembles a nonhuman primate wordnet
- 1 Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.
"“And I am sorry for the man she loves,” said the girl, “for he loves her. I never met him, but from what Jane tells me he must be a very wonderful person. It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.”"
- 2 Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance.; Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
- 3 Having characteristics of an ape.
- 1 resembling human beings wordnet
- 2 resembling apes wordnet
Example
More examples""What anthropoid would your girlfriend be most like?" "What a question... Well, um... An orangutan, I guess.""
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs). By surface analysis, anthrop- + -oid.
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