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Anthropoid
| anthropoid ape
| anthropoidal
| anthropoidea
| anthropolatry
| anthropolite
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Anthropoid
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Anthropoid has 2 senses
- anthropoid(n = noun.person) ape - person who resembles a nonhuman primate; Array is a kind of misfit
- anthropoid(n = noun.animal) Array - any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids; Array is a kind of primate
Derived forms adjective anthropoid1, adjective anthropoidal1
Derived forms adjective anthropoid2, adjective anthropoid1, adjective anthropoidal1
Adjective Anthropoid has 2 senses
- anthropoid(s = adj.all) anthropoidal, apelike - resembling apes; Array Derived forms noun anthropoid2, noun anthropoid1
- anthropoid(s = adj.all) manlike - resembling human beings; Array Derived form noun anthropoid2
CIDE DICTIONARY
Anthropoid, a. [Gr. man + -oid.].
Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Anthropoid, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 resembling a human being in form.
2 colloq. (of a person) apelike.
--n. a being that is human in form only, esp. an anthropoid ape.
--adj.
1 resembling a human being in form.
2 colloq. (of a person) apelike.
--n. a being that is human in form only, esp. an anthropoid ape.
Etymology
Gk anthropoeides (as ANTHROPO-, -OID)
THESAURUS
Anthropoid
Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropomorphic, anthropopathic, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, man of old, manlike, missing link, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, troglodyteROGET THESAURUS
Anthropoid
Mankind
N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.
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