anthropoid
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Before seeing them in person, I had always imagined the saguaro as an isolate: a green anthropoid giant, looming off in the sunset alone.
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
Novelist Samuel Butler’s 1872 science-fiction classic Erewhon, for instance, features concerns about robotic superhuman intelligences that enslave their anthropoid architects, rendering them “affectionate machine-tickling aphids”.
From Nature • Oct. 1, 2019
The other anthropoid branch includes the Old World monkeys and great apes and evolved from Africa and Asia.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018
“Doubtless there are geniuses even among the anthropoid apes,” Yerkes observed.
From Scientific American • Jun. 19, 2012
The aids virus may well have jumped into the human race from African primates, from monkeys and anthropoid apes.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
