any primate of the suborder Anthropoidea, including monkeys, apes, and humans
Compare prosimian
Derived forms
anthropoidal (ˌanthroˈpoidal)
adjective
anthropoid in American English
(ˈænθrəˌpɔɪd)
adjective
1.
resembling a human
2.
apelike
a brutish man with anthropoid features
noun
3.
any of certain highly developed primates, esp. the chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, and gibbon: in some classification systems, any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of primates