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
Some of these believe themselves sprung from trees, as if they had still reminiscences of the arboreal habits of a pithecoid ancestry.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
The Neanderthal cranium stands, therefore, in capacity, very nearly on a level with the mean of the two human extremes, and very far above the pithecoid maximum.
From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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 Weir, James
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 Otto, Rudolf
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