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Definition of Anthropoidal
1. Adjective. Resembling apes.
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
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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