dryopithecoidn.adj.
/ˌdrʌɪə(ʊ)ˈpɪθᵻkɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌdraɪoʊˈpɪθᵻˌkɔɪd/ Palaeontology. Now rare.
A. n.
Any of various extinct apes resembling or related to those of the genus Dryopithecus (cf. Dryopithecus n.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans)
dryopithecoid1927
hominoid1927
1927 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 66 383 (caption) Family of the apes, Simiidæ, including the Pliocene and Miocene Dryopithecoids nearest the ancestral stock of the Anthropoidea.
1965 A. M. Brues & C. C. Snow in B. J. Siegel Biennial Rev. Anthropol. 27 Ramapithecus..possesses several characters..that qualify it as a link intermediate between the Miocene dryopithecoids and the australopithecines.
B. adj.
Resembling or related to extinct apes of the genus Dryopithecus.
ΚΠ
1928 Sci. Monthly May 389/1 Since 1916..I have defended the view that man is an offshoot of some early member of the anthropoid stock, more or less nearly related to some of the wide-ranging dryopithecoid group.
1937 Nature 20 Feb. 326/2 If Australopithecus is not literally a missing link between the older dryopithecoid group and primitive man, what conceivable combination of ape and human characters would ever be admitted as such?
1986 Forensic Sci. Internat. 30 170 The deciduous molar still retains and shows the dryopithecoid form.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.adj.1927