apelike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Lucy was so apelike that “the implicit hypothesis was that the next step back would be a chimpanzee,” says White, who found fossils and analyzed footprints of Lucy’s species at Laetoli in Tanzania.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
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
In it, Goofy is demonstrating to his son, Max, how to cast a fishing line, when he accidentally lures the bumbling apelike being to their campsite instead of a fish.
From Slate • Dec. 7, 2018
They knew that apelike men had lived there, too.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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