Definition of anthropoid
1
: any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets)
especially
: ape sense 1a
2
: a person resembling an ape
the howling anthropoids of the Hookworm Belt— H. L. Mencken
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The first known use of anthropoid was in 1874
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