anthropoid (redirected from Anthropoids)

anthropoid /an·thro·poid/ (an´thro-poid) resembling a human being; the anthropoid apes are tailless apes, including the chimpanzee, gibbon, gorilla, and orangutan.

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an·thro·poid (nthr-poid)

adj.

1. Resembling human beings in structure and form.

2. Of or belonging to the family of great apes including the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orangutan.

3. Resembling or characteristic of an ape; apelike.

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anthropoid

resembling humans; the anthropoid apes are tailless apes, including the chimpanzee, gibbon, gorilla and orang-utan; members of the family Pongidae.