apelike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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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
Its shoulders are also apelike, but the arms, wrists and hands more humanlike.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2018
Despite being depicted in innumerable cartoons as apelike brutes living in caves, Neanderthals had brains slightly larger than our own.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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