anthropoid – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
anthropoid
adj.
manlike, resembling man; resembling apes, apelike
n.
tailless ape (gorilla, chimpanzee, etc.) that resembles humans
Anthropoid
Anthropoid may refer to:
- Simian, monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications)
- Anthropoides, a genus of cranes
- Operation Anthropoid, the codename for the assassination of SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich
- Anthropoid (film), 2015 film based on Operation Anthropoid
- In pelvimetry, one of four types of human female pelvis
- Anthropoid animals, fictional creatures in the Japanese visual novel game Wanko to Kuraso
anthropoid
Noun
1. person who resembles a non-human primate
(synonym) ape
(hypernym) misfit
2. any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
(hypernym) primate
Adjective
1. resembling apes
(synonym) anthropoidal, apelike
(similar) nonhuman
2. resembling human beings
(synonym) manlike
(similar) human
Anthropoid
(n.)
An anthropoid ape.
(a.)
Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
anthropoid
Synonyms and related words:
Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropomorphic, anthropopathic, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, man of old, manlike, missing link, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, troglodyte,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
