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Definition of Anthropomorphous
1. Adjective. Suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things.
Definition of Anthropomorphous
1. a. Having the figure of, or resemblance to, a man; as, an anthropomorphous plant.
Definition of Anthropomorphous
1. Adjective. resembling a human being ¹
2. Adjective. describing an animal or inanimate object using human characteristics; see anthropomorphism ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Anthropomorphous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthropomorphous
Literary usage of Anthropomorphous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Indian Zoology by Thomas Pennant, Johann Reinhold Forster, John Aikin, John Latham, Hugh Davies (1790)
"6t DIV. II. DIGITATED QUADRUPEDS. SECT. I. anthropomorphous, * TAIL-LESS. XII.
APE. 1. Orang-outang. -_-._---- № 72. 2. Satyr. . -. ..."
2. The Works of Orestes A. Brownson by Orestes Augustus Brownson, Henry Francis Brownson (1884)
"anthropomorphous means human-shaped, and has nothing to do with personality or
impersonality ; for, though the body has shape or figure, the person, ..."
3. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"The remaining non-anthropomorphous Old World monkeys, are again divided by some
... If the anthropomorphous apes be admitted to form a natural sub-group, ..."
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