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Anthropoid vs Primate - What's the difference?

anthropoid | primate |

As nouns the difference between anthropoid and primate

is that anthropoid is an anthropoid animal while primate is a mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.

As an adjective anthropoid

is having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance.

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

    primate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) primate.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates , including simians and prosimians.
    • ''Primates range from lemurs to gorillas
  • (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
    • Hyponyms
    * See also * ape * aye-aye * capuchin * douroucouli * entrina * exarch * galago * gibbon * great ape * howler monkey * human, human being * indri * lemur * loris * marmoset * monkey * night monkey * owl monkey * patriarch * potto * saki * simian * spider monkey * squirrel monkey * tamarin * tarsier * titi * uakari * woolly monkey

    Etymology 2

    (English (m)). Compare (m), of similar derivation and meaning.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
  • (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

    • Derived terms

    * Primates * primateship * Primate of All England * Primate of England * Primate of the Gauls

    Related terms

    * primatial * (l)

    See also

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