anthropoid

Example Sentences

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Hitherto, no specimen of anthropoid primates had been discovered in America.”

From Scientific American

To those I will add a few superlatives that were not celebrated at my own high school: most melancholic, most quizzical, most skilled at vibrating the deepest strings of the anthropoid heart.

From New York Times

The pages that follow describe how the infant son of the dead Lord and Lady Greystoke is reared by an anthropoid ape named Kala and learns to survive and flourish in the African jungle.

From Washington Post

If rhesus macaques, or macaques in general, did not have beat perception, then surely, I thought, chimpanzees and other anthropoids did.

From Salon

But what about the other half of the primate family tree - the haplorines, or tarsiers and the anthropoid primates that include us in their membership?

From Scientific American