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ANTHROPOIDAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anthropoidal mean?
• ANTHROPOIDAL (adjective)
The adjective ANTHROPOIDAL has 1 sense:
1. resembling apes
Familiarity information: ANTHROPOIDAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling apes
Synonyms:
anthropoid; anthropoidal; apelike
Similar:
nonhuman (not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings)
Derivation:
anthropoid (any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids)
anthropoid (person who resembles a nonhuman primate)
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