anthropomorphous
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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
Here man may have remained for a period, peculiar to a single island, just as some of the large anthropomorphous species are now limited to one island within the tropics.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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)
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
All the expressions which had attached a living force to natural objects would remain as the description of personal and anthropomorphous gods.
