Only above the eyebrows, where the sloping forehead and low, curved skull of the ape-man were in sharp contrast to the broad brow and magnificent cranium of the European, could one see any marked difference.
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Apeman
Synonyms for "apeman"
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13 translations across 12 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- oermens noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 猿人 noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Dutch
1 entries- aapmens noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Estonian
1 entries- ahvinimene noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Finnish
1 entries- apinaihminen noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
German
2 entries- Affenmensh noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
- Java-Mensh noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Greek
1 entries- πιθηκάνθρωπος noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- mirovê meymûn noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Portuguese
1 entries- homem-macaco noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Russian
1 entries- обезьяночелове́к noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Swedish
1 entries- apmänniska noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
Turkish
1 entries- maymun adam noun (prehistoric man resembling an ape)
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How may we judge him, by what standards, this ape-man with the heart and head and body of an English gentleman, and the training of a wild beast?
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Like countless other ape men, this Tarzan (who is voiced by Tony Goldwyn, but looks like a dreadlocked Calvin Klein model) is raised to feral hunkdom by a gorilla couple, Kala (Glenn Close) and Kerchak (Lance Henrikson), who disagree on the appropriateness of introducing human children to the brute society of American-accented apes.
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Human Nature has as its hero a caged ape man, and, like him, it has been hanging around for quite a while awaiting release.
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