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Definition of Anthropoidea
1. Noun. Monkeys; apes; hominids.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Order Primates, Primates
Member holonyms: Anthropoid Ape, Hominoidea, Superfamily Hominoidea, Family Hominidae, Hominidae, Family Pongidae, Pongidae, Family Hylobatidae, Hylobatidae, Cercopithecidae, Family Cercopithecidae, Platyrrhini, Superfamily Platyrrhini
Definition of Anthropoidea
1. n. pl. The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
Medical Definition of Anthropoidea
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropoidea
Literary usage of Anthropoidea
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... Lemuroidea and anthropoidea— The five families of the anthropoidea—Their range
in time and space— Diagram of the Anthropoid families—Relations of the ..."
2. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"anthropoidea with the pollex not opposable, all the digits provided with flat
... anthropoidea with the pollex, when present, opposable, with or without ..."
3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"In the first place, when the members of the sub-order Lemuroidea (of the order
Primates) are compared with those of the sub-order anthropoidea, in respect ..."
4. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"Lemuroidea and anthropoidea. Neither Tarsius itself nor its known Eocene ...
either to the platyrrhine or to the catarrhine divisions of the anthropoidea. ..."
5. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"... anthropoidea, including the true monkeys and man, are distinguished by the
fact that the bony ring surrounding the orbit sends inwards a plate of bone, ..."
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