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anthropoid
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A slightly later anthropoid shell of the 1630s in the same vault displays an alternative technique. ▪ Amongst them are two very small anthropoid shells, one of 1617, the other of 1618. ▪ In south-east Leicestershire two ...
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Anthropoid is a 2016 UK-French-Czech historical thriller film directed by Sean Ellis , from a screenplay by Ellis and Anthony Frewin , starring Cillian Murphy , Jamie Dornan , Harry Lloyd , Toby Jones , Charlotte Le Bon and Bill Milner . It tells the story ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. person who resembles a non-human primate [syn: ape ] any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"manlike," 1835, from Greek anthropoeides "like a man, resembling a man; in human form;" see anthropo- + -oid . As a noun, attested from 1832 (the Greek noun in this sense was anthroparion ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anthropoid \An"thro*poid\, a. [Gr. ? man + -oid.] Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla. -- n. An anthropoid ape.
Usage examples of anthropoid.
Piltdown skull had been apposed in a manner which was in open defiance of all that was known of skulls, ancient and modern, human and anthropoid.
But no sooner were they afloat than a savage growling from one of the apes directly ahead of him in the dugout attracted his attention to a shivering and cowering figure that trembled between him and the great anthropoid.
In appearance they resembled the more vicious types of dryopithecus, believed by scientists to have been the forerunners of all anthropoids.
The AIDS virus may well have jumped into the human race from African primates, from monkeys and anthropoid apes.
In the ropes of his gut Judah feels a newness, a constructed nonlife, a giant anthropoid wind come to him, as Ann-Hari releases his golem trap.
The anthropoids welcomed his removal, but the troglodytes, led by Hefty, resented it.
Tarzan knew that already he was practically at the outer limits of the Mangani country, yet there was a remote chance that a band of the great anthropoids might pass this way and discover him, while, should Tantor carry him farther north even this meager likelihood of release would be lost forever.
The head was less anthropoid: a black ruff on top, slit-pupiled green eyes, round mobile ears, flat nose that looked feline even to the cilia around it, full-lipped mouth with protruding tushes at the corners, and jaw that tapered down to aV.
The first fossil evidence of a brain of even vaguely human aspects dates back to eighteen million years to the Miocene Period, when an anthropoid ape which we call Proconsul or Dryo-pithecus appeared.
He cooks divinely, but he has the temper of a fiend or an anthropoid ape, and I am really in bodily fear of him.
Whether the future is to them or to the talking anthropoid, no one can say.
No other Team or Group had yet to turn up any kind of alien life much more intelligent than an anthropoid ape.
Chuck placed each anthropoid into a seat, the rest of the task seemed less and less daunting.
It is not surprising that the corrugators should have become much more developed in man than in the anthropoid apes.
It was more anthropoid than not, but with certain striking exaggerations or diminutions of the human scale in some of its features.