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Anthropoid vs Latisternal - What's the difference?

anthropoid | latisternal |

As adjectives the difference between anthropoid and latisternal

is that anthropoid is having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance while latisternal is (zoology) having a broad breastbone, or sternum; said of anthropoid apes.

As a noun anthropoid

is an anthropoid animal.

anthropoid

English

(wikipedia anthropoid)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance
  • having characteristics of an ape

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    See also

    * humanoid

    latisternal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (zoology) Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; said of anthropoid apes.
    • (Webster 1913)