pithecoid

[ pith-i-koid, pi-thee-koid ]

adjective

1. belonging or pertaining to the genus Pithecia and related genera, including the saki monkeys.
2. (loosely) apelike; monkeylike.

pithecoid

/ pĭth′ĭ-koid′,pī-thē′koid /

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of pithecoid¹

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

Example Sentences

The chief difficulty in assigning the possessor of the Mauer jaw to a pithecoid stock has been mentioned already.

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Their life is higher than that of the pithecoid lower and middle savages, but less than that of the barbarians.

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Even our human organism has arisen in the same natural manner, by gradual transformation, from a group of pithecoid mammals.

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By this the male hand becomes more ape-like, as the long arm also is a pithecoid (ape-like) characteristic.

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

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