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anthropoid apes

Ape \Ape\ ([=a]p), n. [AS. apa; akin to D. aap, OHG. affo, G. affe, Icel. api, Sw. apa, Dan. abe, W. epa.]

  1. (Zo["o]l.) A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiad[ae], having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

    Note: The ape of the Old Testament was probably the rhesus monkey of India, and allied forms.

  2. One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.
    --Byron.

  3. A dupe. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

Usage examples of "anthropoid apes".

It seems that he was born in an African jungle, and brought up by fierce, anthropoid apes.

If then our semi- human progenitors protruded their lips when sulky or a little angered, in the same manner as do the existing anthropoid apes, it is not an anomalous, though a curious fact, that our children should exhibit, when similarly affected, a trace of the same expression, together with some tendency to utter a noise.

I assure you that I little thought when I left my professional chair in London that it was for the purpose of heading a raid of savages upon a colony of anthropoid apes.

Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orangoutang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.

Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orang-outang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.

They also more closely resemble human beings than any primates outside the superfamily do, so they are sometimes called anthropoid apes to distinguish them from tailless monkeys.

In humans and anthropoid apes, there are twenty-three pairs of chromosomes for a total of forty-six.

There were anthropoid apes and gorillas--these I had no difficulty in recognizing.