anthropoid

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   adj

   resembling human beings

4. 4
   adj

   resembling apes

Common collocations

• anthropoid ape Adjective + noun

From Ancient Greek ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs). By surface analysis, anthrop- + -oid.

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