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Anthropoid

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Noun

1. anthropoid, ape

person who resembles a nonhuman primate

2. anthropoid

any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids

Adjective

3. anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike

resembling apes

4. anthropoid, manlike

resembling human beings

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Anthropoid

see synonyms of anthropoid
adjective
1. 
resembling humans
2. 
resembling an ape; apelike
3. 
of or relating to the suborder Anthropoidea
noun
4. 
any primate of the suborder Anthropoidea, including monkeys, apes, and humans
Compare prosimian

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Anthropoid

see synonyms of anthropoid
adjective
1. 
resembling a human
2. 
apelike
a brutish man with anthropoid features
noun
3. 
any of certain highly developed primates, esp. the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon: in some classification systems, any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of primates

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Anthropoid

see synonyms of anthropoid
adj.
1. Of or belonging to the primate suborder Anthropoidea, which consists of the New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans.
2. Resembling a human, especially in shape or outward appearance.
3. Resembling or characteristic of a nonhuman ape; apelike: an anthropoid forehead.
n.
A primate of the suborder Anthropoidea.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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