- 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 anthropomorphous apes, namely the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang, and hylobates, are by most naturalists separated from the other Old World monkeys, as a distinct sub-group.
From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles
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 Hardy, Thomas
The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles
Therefore weeping probably came on rather late in the line of our descent; and this conclusion agrees with the fact that our nearest allies, the anthropomorphous apes, do not weep.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
Whether the adult anthropomorphous apes, in the males of whom the canines are much larger than in the females, uncover them when prepared to fight, is not known.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
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