anthropoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce anthropoid in British English:
UK [ˈænθrəpɔɪd]
How to pronounce anthropoid in American English:
US [ˈænθrəˌpɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- person who resembles a non-human primate
- any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
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- Adjective:
- resembling apes
- resembling human beings
Word Origin
- anthropoid (adj.)
- "manlike," 1835, from Greek anthropoeides "like a man, resembling a man; in human form;" see anthropo- + -oid. As a noun, attested from 1832 (the Greek noun in this sense was anthroparion).
Example
- 1. Considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans .
- 2. In october 1941 , plans were drawn up to assassinate heydrich under the code name anthropoid .
- 3. The robots were the roomba , a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner , and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness .
- 4. Any of various extinct primates , such as pithecanthropus , sometimes considered intermediate in evolution between the anthropoid apes and modern human beings .
- 5. Gorillas , chimpanzees and gibbons are all anthropoid apes , having long arms , no tails and highly developed brains .