- apelike
- adjective see ape I
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apelike
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apelike — adjective 1. resembling apes • Syn: ↑anthropoid, ↑anthropoidal • Similar to: ↑nonhuman • Derivationally related forms: ↑anthropoid (for: ↑anthropo … Useful english dictionary
apelike — adjective a) Similar to an ape in appearance or movement. The Nomad has his very house set on wheels; the Nomad, and in a still higher degree the Ape, are all for “liberty;” the privilege to flit continually is indispensable for them. Alas, in… … Wiktionary
apelike — adj. resembling an ape; uncouth, rude (of a person) … English contemporary dictionary
anthropoid anthropoidal apelike — nonhuman onhuman adj. not human. Opposite of {human}. [Narrower terms: {anthropoid, anthropoidal, apelike}; {bloodless}; {dehumanized, unhuman}; {grotesque, monstrous, unnatural}; {mechanical}] [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ape — apelike, adj. /ayp/, n., v., aped, aping. n. 1. any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape), which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and… … Universalium
Australopithecus — /aw stray loh pith i keuhs, peuh thee keuhs, aw streuh /, n. an extinct genus of small brained,large toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago. Cf. australopithecine. [ < NL (1905), equiv. to austral(is) … Universalium
Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… … Universalium
Evolution — Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation) The world of organisms comprises a great system of individual forms generally classified according to structural… … Catholic encyclopedia
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human evolution — Evolution of modern human beings from nonhuman and extinct hominid forms. Genetic evidence points to an evolutionary divergence between the lineages of humans and the great apes (Pongidae) on the African continent 5–8 million years ago. The… … Universalium
