pithecoid
Americanadjective
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belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.
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(loosely) apelike; monkeylike.
Etymology
Origin of pithecoid
1860–65; < New Latin pithēc ( us ) ape (< Greek píthēkos ) + -oid
Example Sentences
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Nowadays Sir William is generally remembered, when he is, because he happened to be Oscar's father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality."
From Time Magazine Archive
Only, the nasal index is somewhat smaller; on the whole, the nose has in its separate parts a decidedly pithecoid form.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig
Since his evolution from his pithecoid ancestor the forces of nature have been at work evolving man’s psychical being.
From Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire by James Weir
An extensive and valuable literature has grown up in the last ten years on the Pithecanthropus and the pithecoid theory connected with it.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
He held fast to his ceterum censeo: “As yet no diluvial discovery has been made which can be referred to a man of a pithecoid type.”
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
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