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
From their first excavation, they claimed to have discovered several pieces of a humanlike skull, an apelike mandible, some worn molar teeth, stone tools, and fossilized animals.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 9, 2016
They knew that apelike men had lived there, too.
From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall
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