- a variation of anthropomorphic.
anthropomorphous
Britishadjective
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shaped like a human being
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another word for anthropomorphic
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The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by T. S. (Thomas Suter) Ackland
The relations between man and ape are most readily stated in 110 comparison with the gorilla, as on the whole the most anthropomorphous ape.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various
Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form?
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler
But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile.
From The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce
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