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Synonyms for anthropoid


Grammar : Noun
Spell : an-thruh-poid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈæn θrəˌpɔɪd



Définition of anthropoid

Origin :
  • "manlike," 1835, from Greek anthropoeides "like a man, resembling a man; in human form;" see anthropo- + -iod. As a noun, attested from 1832 (the Greek noun in this sense was anthroparion).
  • noun ape
Example sentences :
  • The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.
  • Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
  • In the anthropoid ape we already find the family, but not the clan.
  • Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
  • A white foam dripped from the chattering lips of the anthropoid.
  • Extract from : « The Mind Master » by Arthur J. Burks
  • Bentley rose and looked down at the anthropoid for several seconds.
  • Extract from : « The Mind Master » by Arthur J. Burks
  • From these last, anthropoid apes and man have, he believes, been evolved.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • Do you know how the muscles are in this part in the anthropoid apes?
  • Extract from : « More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II » by Charles Darwin
  • Well, I am not only a noble, but a king; why should not I also have an anthropoid as a butler and valet?'
  • Extract from : « Our Home in the Silver West » by Gordon Stables
  • In the Monkeys and anthropoid Apes this cartilage is circular.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 5 » by Various
  • From Mesopotamia it passed to Persia, principally in the anthropoid type.
  • Extract from : « The Swastika » by Thomas Wilson
  • The anthropoid apes form a zoological group of four genera only.
  • Extract from : « The Races of Man » by Joseph Deniker

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