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
- 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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