- a variation of anthropomorphic.
anthropomorphous
Example Sentences
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We were everywhere blamed, in the most cultivated class of society, for being the only persons to doubt the existence of the great anthropomorphous monkey of America.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by T. S. (Thomas Suter) Ackland
The anthropomorphous apes, namely the gorilla, chimpanzee, orang, and hylobates, are by most naturalists separated from the other Old World monkeys, as a distinct sub-group.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
A tail, though not externally visible, is really present in man and the anthropomorphous apes, and is constructed on exactly the same pattern in both.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
