different between anthropoid vs pithecoid

English

Etymology

anthropo- +? -oid

Adjective

anthropoid (comparative more anthropoid, superlative most anthropoid)

1. 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.
2. having characteristics of an ape

Translations

Noun

anthropoid (plural anthropoids)

1. 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.

Translations

See also

• humanoid

Further reading

• anthropoid at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (pith?koeid?s, “ape-like”).

Adjective

pithecoid (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes.
2. Of or pertaining to the monkeys of genus Pithecia.

Related terms

• pithecism
• pithecomorphic