Crossword clues for anthropoid
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
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).
Wiktionary
a. 1 having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance 2 having characteristics of an ape n. An anthropoid animal.
WordNet
adj. resembling apes [syn: anthropoidal, apelike]
resembling human beings [syn: manlike]
n. person who resembles a non-human primate [syn: ape]
any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
Wikipedia
Anthropoid may refer to:
- Simian, monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications)
- Anthropoides, a genus of cranes
- Operation Anthropoid, the codename for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich
- Anthropoid (film), a 2016 film based on Operation Anthropoid
- In pelvimetry, one of four types of human female pelvis
- Anthropoid animals, fictional creatures in the Japanese visual novel game Wanko to Kurasō
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 of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by Exile Czechoslovak soldiers on 27 May 1942.
Anthropoid had its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival on 1 July 2016. Bleecker Street released the film on 9 September 2016 in the United Kingdom and on 12 August 2016 in the United States.
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.