anthropomorphous

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

These are of functional importance by supporting certain internal parts and in other ways; and their modification is directly connected with the erect or semi-erect attitude of man and the anthropomorphous apes.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles

The ourang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

We were everywhere blamed, in the most cultivated class of society, for being the only persons to doubt the existence of the great anthropomorphous monkey of America.

From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

Linked through the ages, one and all, In long anthropomorphous chain, The human and the animal Inseparably must remain.

From One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue by Cawein, Julius Madison