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Anthropoid

noun
1.
Person who resembles a nonhuman primate.  Synonym: ape.
2.
Any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids.



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"Anthropoid" Quotes from Famous Books



... external ear.—These, which are of large size and functional use in quadrupeds, we retain in a dwindled and useless condition (Fig. 11). This is likewise the case in anthropoid apes; but in not a few other Quadrumana (e.g. baboons, macacus, magots, &c.) degeneration has not proceeded so far, and the ears ...
— Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) • George John Romanes
... (2) that the natural psychological evolution of the human mind has in the various times and climes led folk of the most diverse surroundings and heredity—and perhaps even sprung from separate anthropoid stocks—to develop their social and religious ideas along the same general lines—and that even to the extent of exhibiting at times a remarkable similarity in minute details. This is a theory which commends itself greatly to a deeper and more philosophical consideration; ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... much fear I shall have to get rid of Sebastien. He cooks divinely, but he has the temper of a fiend or an anthropoid ape, and I am really in bodily fear of him. We had a dispute the other day as to the correct sort of lunch to be served on Ash Wednesday, and I got so irritated and annoyed at his conceit and obstinacy that ...
— Beasts and Super-Beasts • Saki
... business-like, 'it's easy enough for you to get out of this scrape. Money'll do it. You've got to pay a long string of 'em from General Pomposo down to this anthropoid ape guarding your door. About $10,000 will do the trick. ...
— Roads of Destiny • O. Henry
... with his belt of drums, upon which he beats a devil's tattoo until he is black in the face, is no longer even indirectly associated with the storm. As for dryads and nymphs, the beautiful creatures never inhabited Eastern Asia. Anthropoid foxes and raccoons, wholly lacking in those engaging qualities that beget love, and through love remembrance, take their place. Even Benten, the naturalized Venus, who, like her Hellenic sister, is said to have risen from the sea, is a person quite incapable of ...
— The Soul of the Far East • Percival Lowell


Words linked to "Anthropoid" :   anthropoidal, primate, human, nonhuman, misfit


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