anthropoid

English

Etymology

anthropo- +‎ -oid

Adjective

anthropoid (comparative more anthropoid, superlative most anthropoid)

1. having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance
   1. (anatomy, in pelvimetry) Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
2. having characteristics of an ape

Translations

having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance

• Catalan: antropoide
• Finnish: ihmismäinen (fi)
• German: menschenähnlich (de)
• Greek: ανθρωποειδής (el) m or f (anthropoeidís)

  Ancient: ἀνθρωποειδής (anthrōpoeidḗs)

• Irish: antrapóideach
• Manx: antrapoydagh

• Polish: człekokształtny (pl)
• Portuguese: antropoide (pt)
• Romanian: antropoid (ro), antropomorf (ro)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: човјеко̀лик, а̏нтропоӣдан

  Roman: čovjekòlik (sh), ȁntropoīdan (sh)

• Spanish: antropoide (es)
• Swedish: människoliknande (sv), antropoid (sv)

having characteristics of an ape

• Catalan: antropoide
• Greek: ανθρωποειδής (el) m or f (anthropoeidís)
• Irish: antrapóideach
• Manx: antrapoydagh
• Romanian: antropoid (ro), antropomorf (ro)

• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мајмуно̀лик

  Roman: majmunòlik (sh)

• Spanish: antropoide (es)

Noun

anthropoid (plural anthropoids)

1. An anthropoid animal.
   • 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1

     The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎^[1]:

     Here and there a little group of shattered Indians marked where one of the anthropoids had turned to bay, and sold his life dearly.

Translations

an anthropoid animal

• Afrikaans: antropoïed
• Catalan: antropoide m
• Czech: lidoop m
• Greek: ανθρωποειδές (el) n (anthropoeidés)
• Irish: antrapóideach m

• Manx: antrapoyd f
• Portuguese: antropoide (pt) m
• Romanian: antropoidă (ro) f, antropoide (ro) n pl

See also

• humanoid

Further reading

• anthropoid at OneLook Dictionary Search