The Collaborative International Dictionary
Anthropomorphous \An`thro*po*mor"phous\, a.
Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an
anthropomorphous plant. ``Anthropomorphous apes.''
--Darwin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Resembling a human being. 2 Describing an animal or inanimate object using human characteristics; see anthropomorphism.
WordNet
adj. suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things [syn: anthropomorphic, humanlike]
Usage examples of "anthropomorphous".
This is all the more likely with a habit like weeping, which must have been acquired since the period when man branched off from the common progenitor of the genus Homo and of the non-weeping anthropomorphous apes.
Whether the adult anthropomorphous apes, in the males of whom the canines are much larger than in the females, uncover them when prepared to fight, is not known.
We may readily believe from our affinity to the anthropomorphous apes that our male semi-human progenitors possessed great canine teeth, and men are now occasionally born having them of unusually large size, with interspaces in the opposite jaw for their reception.
You see how searchingly and co-ordinately interdependent and anthropomorphous it all is.
This product is known as the Cashier, an anthropomorphous growth, watered by religious doctrine, trained up in fear of the guillotine, pruned by vice, to flourish on a third floor with an estimable wife by his side and an uninteresting family.