Definition of Anthropoidea

1. Noun. Monkeys; apes; hominids.


Definition of Anthropoidea

1. n. pl. The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

Medical Definition of Anthropoidea

1. The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man. Origin: NL. See Anthropoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropoidea

anthropogenetic
anthropogenetics
anthropogenic
anthropogenically
anthropogenies
anthropogenous
anthropogeny
anthropoglot
anthropoglots
anthropogony
anthropography
anthropoid
anthropoid ape
anthropoid pelvis
anthropoidal
anthropoidea (current term)
anthropoids
anthropolatry
anthropolite
anthropolites
anthropologic
anthropological
anthropologically
anthropologies
anthropologist
anthropologists
anthropology
anthropology department
anthropomancy
anthropometer

Literary usage of Anthropoidea

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"... Lemuroidea and anthropoidea— The five families of the anthropoidea—Their range in time and space— Diagram of the Anthropoid families—Relations of the ..."

2. A Text-book of Zoology by Thomas Jeffery Parker, William Aitcheson Haswell (1921)
"anthropoidea with the pollex not opposable, all the digits provided with flat ... anthropoidea with the pollex, when present, opposable, with or without ..."

3. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1902)
"In the first place, when the members of the sub-order Lemuroidea (of the order Primates) are compared with those of the sub-order anthropoidea, in respect ..."

4. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"Lemuroidea and anthropoidea. Neither Tarsius itself nor its known Eocene ... either to the platyrrhine or to the catarrhine divisions of the anthropoidea. ..."

5. Zoology: An Elementary Text-book by Arthur Everett Shipley, Ernest William MacBride (1904)
"... anthropoidea, including the true monkeys and man, are distinguished by the fact that the bony ring surrounding the orbit sends inwards a plate of bone, ..."

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