apelike
Americanadjective
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In that grainy 10-second video, a large, slightly hunched apelike creature lurches past some fallen wood, pausing briefly to look over its shoulder.
From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2023
For a hominin of this time period, the heel bone was too apelike, and the midfoot, ankle, knee, hip and lower back showed strange traits in both skeletons.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 5, 2022
Two apelike brothers stomp around Tokyo; an American scientist and his helper advise.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
Genetics has taught us a tremendous amount about that, and there’s a lot of evidence that they were much more human than apelike.
From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2017
They knew that apelike men had lived there, too.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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