anthropoid
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- adjective
- /ˈænθrəˌpɔɪd/
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- After the discovery of early anthropoid fossils in 1995-1996, the PRC media proclaimed that the earliest humans appeared in China and that even the simian ancestors of humans originated in East Asia.
Examples
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Or maybe they've started to evolve back in an anthropoid direction.
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Bodies were seen as providing clues to the evolution of race since the ratio of the length of the forearm to the distance from fingertips to knee was presumed to be an index of evolutionary distance from anthropoid apes.
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Since early fossil Old World anthropoids also had small brains, this skull provides strong evidence that brains expanded independently in the Old and New World anthropoid primates.
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Refusal to pay serious attention to the aquatic ape theory implies that the occurrence of all these and other anomalous factors in one single anthropoid species is attributable to pure coincidence.
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This is borne out today in the brains that govern the radically different body plans of octopuses, cetaceans, and anthropoid apes, and our world's first taste of this complexity appeared with eruptive force.
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The anthropoid features of the sculpture made it look almost lifelike.
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Scientists studied the anthropoid traits that distinguished early hominids from other primates.
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The anthropoid design of the robot allowed it to mimic human movements effectively.
Synonyms
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Having the look or movement of a monkey
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Having the shape and features of an ape
Compounds
- Specialized
A large tailless animal like a gorilla or chimpanzee that is more like humans than other monkeys
How Ape-Like
Surface Forms
Morphology
anthropoid = anthropo- (semi-transparent) = anthropo + oid
Morphologically regular ('human' + 'resembling'), but the combining form is not a common standalone word and the sense 'ape-like' may be specialized, so it is only partly transparent.
Etymology
Anthropoid comes from an old Greek word anthropos meaning 'human' and the ending -oid meaning 'like' or 'shape'. As an adjective, anthropoid describes features or movements that are 'ape-like', so you can picture an animal or face that reminds you of an ape.