different between anthropoid vs anthropoidal

English

anthropo- +? -oid

anthropoid (comparative more anthropoid, superlative most anthropoid)

having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance
1. (anatomy, in pelvimetry) Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
having characteristics of an ape

anthropoid (plural anthropoids)

An anthropoid animal.
- 1912: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 1
  The tribe of anthropoids over which Kerchak ruled with an iron hand and bared fangs, numbered some six or eight families, each family consisting of an adult male with his females and their young, numbering in all some sixty or seventy apes.

anthropoidal (comparative more anthropoidal, superlative most anthropoidal)

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