Anthropoidea

[ an-thruh-poi-dee-uh ]

noun(used with a singular or plural verb)Anthropology, Zoology.
  1. a former taxonomic suborder that comprised New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes, including humans, collectively classified as anthropoids or anthropoid apes, which are now grouped under the suborder Haplorhini along with the tarsiers.

Origin of Anthropoidea

1
First recorded in 1795–1800; anthrop(o)- + -oidea

Words Nearby Anthropoidea

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How to use Anthropoidea in a sentence

  • In most of the other Anthropoidea there are two or three fused vertebrae, and in the Lemuroidea two to five.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The characters of the skull differ greatly in the two suborders of Primates, the Anthropoidea and the Lemuroidea.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • In the lower Anthropoidea the ilium is long and narrow and has a small iliac surface.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • In the Anthropoidea the skull differs greatly from that in the Lemuroidea.

    The Vertebrate Skeleton | Sidney H. Reynolds
  • The wrist (carpus) has nine bones, as in the lower Anthropoidea.