Anthropoid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANTHROPOID in dictionary:

NOUN:
• any of a suborder of higher primates
• a higher primate, especially an ape or apeman.
• An anthropoid ape.
• person who resembles a nonhuman primate
• any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
ADJECTIVE:
• resembling a human being in form
• relating to the group of higher primates, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans.
• (of an ape) belonging to the groups that include the great apes and gibbons.
• Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
• resembling apes
• resembling human beings
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (as macaques and marmosets); ape 1b

Words related to ANTHROPOID

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Words that contain ANTHROPOID

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How to use ANTHROPOID in a sentence

• Indeed the pair were an anthropoid couple, Hunsa the gorilla, and the headman an ape.
• Above them, the shrill scream of an anthropoid suddenly pierced the dark night as its tree home was sent crashing to the ground.
• The bony external ear-passage is in general as highly developed in the lower Eastern monkeys and the anthropoid apes as in man.
• The anthropoid apes have in common with man many characters which are not present in the lower Old World monkeys.
• From these last, anthropoid apes and man have, he believes, been evolved.
• Even the anthropoid apes when standing on their feet assume a somewhat oblique position.
• This conformation reminds us throughout of the brain of the anthropoid apes.
• Garner, who has spent much time in studying the language of animals, has attracted a great amount of attention through his special study of the anthropoid apes.
• Whether this was a chimpanzee, an orangoutang, or a gorilla, he took rank among the anthropoid apes, who are so called from their resemblance to the human race.
• He belonged to the family of anthropoid apes, of which the facial angle is not much inferior to that of the Australians and Hottentots.
• It is to this family of the anthropoid apes that so many characteristics belong which prove them to be possessed of an almost human intelligence.
• They are apparently an earlier offshoot of the anthropoid stem, as held by most authorities, and the giant apes and man are probably a later branch.
• The anthropoid apes, as we have seen, likewise utter a reiterated sound, corresponding with our laughter, when they are tickled, especially under the armpits.
• Man is in travail with an ideal which rose not in the anthropoid apes, though it may have risen through them.
• There appear, indeed, to have been various types of man, some as different from us as we are from the anthropoid apes.
• A Darwinian might find evidence of the pedigree of our species in the inherent taste for mimicry which we share, at all events, with the anthropoid apes.

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