ANTHROPOID APE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anthropoid ape mean? 

• ANTHROPOID APE (noun)
  The noun ANTHROPOID APE has 1 sense:

1. any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae

  Familiarity information: ANTHROPOID APE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANTHROPOID APE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("anthropoid ape" is a kind of...):

ape (any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "anthropoid ape"):

great ape; pongid (any of the large anthropoid apes of the family Pongidae)

lesser ape (gibbons and siamangs)

Holonyms ("anthropoid ape" is a member of...):

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

 Context examples 

In South America there are, if my memory serves me—you will check the observation, Professor Summerlee—some thirty-six species of monkeys, but the anthropoid ape is unknown.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Pan troglodytes, an anthropoid ape that inhabits the tropical rain forests of Africa and is used for experimental purposes because of its susceptibility to some human diseases and in behavioral studies because of its high level of intelligence.

(Chimpanzee, NCI Thesaurus)

It is probable that there existed an anthropoid ape in South America, who in past ages found his way to this place, and that he developed into the creatures we have seen, some of which—here he looked hard at me—were of an appearance and shape which, if it had been accompanied by corresponding intelligence, would, I do not hesitate to say, have reflected credit upon any living race.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)