anthropoid

/an-thruh-poid/US // ˈæn θrəˌpɔɪd //UK // (ˈænθrəˌpɔɪd) //

类人猿类,类人猿型,类人猿,类人猿类的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : resembling humans.
- : Anthropology, Zoology. belonging or pertaining to the group of primates characterized by a relatively flat face, dry nose, small immobile ears, and forward-facing eyes, comprising New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes, including humans: these primates were formerly classified into their own suborder, Anthropoidea, which has been supplanted by the more inclusive suborder Haplorhini.See also haplorhine.

n.名词 noun

nounape

Synonyms

This left them, in the end, with “rhinoceros” and “anthropoid.”
They summoned Mr. Rizzo and desired him to spell the word “anthropoid.”
In and among the rest he inserted the words “rhinoceros” and “anthropoid.”
It is large in the anthropoid apes, especially in the orang, in which it is very long and spirally convoluted.
The abnormality of club-foot may be pointed to as a reversion to the shape of the foot in the anthropoid apes.
The same peculiarity exists in the larger anthropoid apes and in some of the gibbons, but is not found in the lower mammals.
None of the other anthropoid apes ever walk erect, though they assume at times the upright posture.
Of the anthropoid apes of Europe, probably numerous in individuals, a few remains of one or two species alone survive.