Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A group of anthropoid apes, the simians, equivalent to the family Simiidæ. See
ape , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) The manlike, or anthropoid, apes.
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Dubois has proposed the appropriate name of Prothylobates for the common and much younger stem-form of the anthropomorpha (man and the anthropoid apes).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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