anthropoid

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: an=thro=poid

CIDE DICTIONARY

anthropoid, a. [Gr. man + -oid.].

 Resembling man; -- applied especially to certain apes, as the ourang or gorilla.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

anthropoid, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 resembling a human being in form.
2 colloq. (of a person) apelike.
--n. a being that is human in form only, esp. an anthropoid ape.

Etymology

Gk anthropoeides (as ANTHROPO-, -OID)

THESAURUS

anthropoid

Bronze Age man, Hominidae, Iron Age man, Stone Age man, aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, antediluvian, anthropomorphic, anthropopathic, ape-man, autochthon, bushman, cave dweller, caveman, fossil man, hominid, humanoid, man of old, manlike, missing link, preadamite, prehistoric man, prehuman, primate, primitive, protohuman, troglodyte

ROGET THESAURUS

anthropoid

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.