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ANTHROPOID APE

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

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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)

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ANTHROPOID APE: related words searches

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