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anthropoidal
Variant of anthropoid
adjective
- resembling a human
- apelike: a brutish man with anthropoid features
noun
any of certain highly developed primates, esp. the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon: in some classification systems, any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of primates
Related Forms:
- anthropoidal adjective
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