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Adjective
/ˈanTHrəˌpoid/,
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Resembling a human being in form,
  1. Resembling a human being in form
    • - cartoons of anthropoid frogs
  2. Of or relating to the group of higher primates, which includes monkeys, apes, and humans

  3. (of an ape) Belonging to one of the families of great apes

  4. (of a person) Apelike in appearance or behavior
    • - his crewcut sloped down from the back of his head to a low-cut, anthropoid forehead
Noun
  1. A higher primate, esp. an ape or apeman

  2. A person that resembles an ape in appearance or behavior
    • - anthropoids ruled the streets
  1. resembling apes
  2. person who resembles a nonhuman primate
  3. any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids
  4. (Anthropoids) The simians (infraorder Simiiformes) are the "higher primates" familiar to most people: the Old World monkeys and apes, including humans, (together being the catarrhines), and the New World monkeys or platyrrhines. Simians tend to be larger than the "lower primates" or prosimians.
  5. An anthropoid animal; having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance; having characteristics of an ape
  6. Coffins in the shape of a human.
  7. A member of a primate group made up of the apes. orangutan, gorilla, chimpanzee, and bonobo), monkeys, and humans.
  8. Living and fossil anthropoids can be distinguished from prosimians on the basis of a number of shared derived features of the skull and dentition. ...
  9. Operational code name for the assassination of Heydrich in Prague.