anthropoid
/ˈanθrəpɔɪd
/adjective
1Resembling a human being in form: anthropoid gods...
- Archaeologists and site-workers anxiously probed into the sand and uncover three magnificently carved unidentified wooden anthropoid sarcophagi dating back to the 26th Dynasty.
- The stage is dominated throughout by huge anthropoid figures, I should think over 30 feet tall.
- This fairly sturdy oversized paperback is printed in blue, with uninspiring cartoons of a cross-eyed kid in a beanie and his anthropoid dog.
1.1 Zoology Relating to the group of higher primates, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans.But now we have much more complete material - upper and lower jaws - that gives us a better idea of what Biretia is and how it fits into the broader picture of early anthropoid evolution....
- His overview is especially effective, as it clearly presents several hypotheses of anthropoid origins.
- But fundamental questions remain to be answered about anthropoid origins in Asia and Africa.
1.2 Zoology (Of an ape) belonging to the groups that include the great apes and gibbons.They are heavy-bodied, thick-necked anthropoid apes, native to the swampy coastal forests of Sumatra and Borneo....
- This usually occurs in gibbons and occasionally in other anthropoid apes.
- In 1917, he conducted experiments on anthropoid apes on the Island of Tenerife.
noun Zoology
A higher primate, especially an ape or apeman.
- Suborder Anthropoidea, order Primates.
- The ancient teeth and jawbones of the tiny, monkeylike creatures shed new light on the poorly understood evolution of early anthropoids, a suborder of primates that includes apes, monkeys, and humans.
- However, if present day anthropoids are any indication, early primates were quick to take advantage of these new arboreal plant foods.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from Greek anthrōpoeidēs, from anthrōpos 'human being' + -oid.