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apelike

American  
[ayp-lahyk] / ˈeɪp laɪk /

adjective

  1. similar to an ape in behavior, movement, speech, or appearance.


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Lucy was so apelike that “the implicit hypothesis was that the next step back would be a chimpanzee,” says White, who found fossils and analyzed footprints of Lucy’s species at Laetoli in Tanzania.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

Sometimes Bigfoot believers go “squatching” in the forest to hunt for tracks left behind from the purported apelike creature.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2023

For a hominin of this time period, the heel bone was too apelike, and the midfoot, ankle, knee, hip and lower back showed strange traits in both skeletons.

From Scientific American • Nov. 5, 2022

Two apelike brothers stomp around Tokyo; an American scientist and his helper advise.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 18, 2019

They knew that apelike men had lived there, too.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall