pithecoid

American  

[pith-i-koid, pi-thee-koid] / ˈpɪθ ɪˌkɔɪd, pɪˈθi kɔɪd /

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.

2. (loosely) apelike; monkeylike.

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pithecoid Scientific  

/ pĭth′ĭ-koid′,pī-thē′koid /

1. Resembling or relating to the apes, especially the anthropoid apes.

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Etymology

Origin of pithecoid

1860–65; < New Latin pithēc ( us ) ape (< Greek píthēkos ) + -oid

Example Sentences

Nowadays Sir William is generally remembered, when he is, because he happened to be Oscar's father, or because he was, as an outraged Victorian put it, a "pithecoid person of extraordinary sensuality."

From Time Magazine Archive

An extensive and valuable literature has grown up in the last ten years on the Pithecanthropus and the pithecoid theory connected with it.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

The Neanderthal cranium stands, therefore, in capacity, very nearly on a level with the mean of the two human extremes, and very far above the pithecoid maximum.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Only, the nasal index is somewhat smaller; on the whole, the nose has in its separate parts a decidedly pithecoid form.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin

In the region of science they are quite inadmissible; they are doubly objectionable now that we know that only in late Tertiary times was man developed from pithecoid mammals.

From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August