- a variation of anthropomorphic.
anthropomorphous
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Here man may have remained for a period, peculiar to a single island, just as some of the large anthropomorphous species are now limited to one island within the tropics.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form?
From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Samuel Butler
So that the correspondence in general structure, in the minute structure of the tissues, in chemical composition and in constitution, between man and the higher animals, especially the anthropomorphous apes, is extremely close.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
Among the few species already detected, two at least belong to the anthropomorphous class.
From The Antiquity of Man by Sir Charles Lyell
The ourang-outang is the most anthropomorphous of the ape tribe, all of which are strictly frugivorous.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott