Pithecoid

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Resembling or relating to the apes, especially the anthropoid apes.
  • adj. Of or belonging to a genus (Pithecia) of small slender South American monkeys related to the titi.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the monkeys of genus Pithecia
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinæ, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Resembling or pertaining to the genus Pithecus; belonging to the higher as distinguished from the lower apes; simian; anthropoid, as an ape. Loosely, of or pertaining to an ape; related to an ape.
  • n. An anthropoid ape; a simian.
    • Word Usage
    "A traveller well known to me once proposed to breed pithecoid men who might be useful as hewers of wood and drawers of water: his idea was to put the highest races of apes to the lowest of humanity."
     
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