Definition of Anthropoidal

1. Adjective. Resembling apes.

Exact synonyms: Anthropoid, Apelike
Similar to: Nonhuman
Derivative terms: Anthropoid, Anthropoid, Anthropoid, Anthropoid

Definition of Anthropoidal

1. a. Anthropoid.

Definition of Anthropoidal

1. Adjective. anthropoid ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropoidal

anthropogenesis
anthropogenetic
anthropogenetics
anthropogenic
anthropogenically
anthropogenies
anthropogenous
anthropogeny
anthropoglot
anthropoglots
anthropogony
anthropography
anthropoid
anthropoid ape
anthropoid pelvis
anthropoidal (current term)
anthropoidea
anthropoids
anthropolatry
anthropolite
anthropolites
anthropologic
anthropological
anthropologically
anthropologies
anthropologist
anthropologists
anthropology
anthropology department
anthropomancy

Literary usage of Anthropoidal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mystery of the Sexes: With Chapters on the Sexual Evolution of the Human by Francis H. Buzzacott (1914)
"He will find it more enlightening than all the books on anthropoidal links ever penned by mortal men, and there will come to his mind a desire for a better ..."

2. Indian Tribes of Eastern Peru by William Curtis Farabee (1922)
"This group is not greatly affected by the development of the anthropoidal plate, but it is so important and powerful an element in quadrupedal progression ..."

3. Nippur Or Explorations A. Adventures on the Euphrates: Narrative of the by John Punnett Peters (1897)
"They also showed us followers of Alexander the Great using coffins imitating in their shape those same Egyptian anthropoidal coffins. ..."

4. Glimpses of the Cosmos by Lester Frank Ward (1917)
"There was once an anthropoidal Ape, far smarter than the rest. ... Loud screamed the anthropoidal Apes with laughter wild and gay; Then tried to catch that ..."

5. The Nationalist: A Monthly Magazine edited by Henry William Austin, John Storer Cobb (1890)
"U. There was once an anthropoidal Ape, far smarter than the rest, And everything that ... Loud screamed the anthropoidal Apes with laughter wild and gay; ..."

6. Letters from Constantinople by G. A. M. (Georgina Adelaide Müller) (1897)
"... the outlines of the human body and therefore called anthropoidal. ... it has been reasonably concluded that the remains of the anthropoidal or ..."

7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It is further to be taken into consideration that, as Wieder- sheim points out, the human brain is not to be looked upon as an enlarged anthropoidal one, ..."

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