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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The anthropoid apes; the highest family of the order Primates and suborder Anthropoidea (excepting Hominidæ), divided into the two subfamilies Simiinæ and Hylobatinæ, the former containing the gorilla, chimpanzee, and orang, and the latter the gibbons.
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