Ape vs Anthropoid - What's the difference?
ape | anthropoid |
A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
Any such primate other than a human.
(derogatory) An uncivilised person.
To behave like an ape.
To imitate; mimic.
* 1961 , J. A. Philip, "Mimesis in the Sophistês'' of Plato," ''Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association , vol. 92, p. 454,
Wild; crazy.
having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance
having characteristics of an ape
An anthropoid animal.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 1
As nouns the difference between ape and anthropoid
is that ape is apartment while anthropoid is an anthropoid animal.As an adjective anthropoid is
having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance.ape
English
(wikipedia ape)Noun
(en noun)Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ape-baboon * ape-bearer * apedom * apehood * apelike * apeling * apely * apeman * apeshit * go ape * naked apeVerb
(ap)- It is not conceived as a mere “aping ” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.
Derived terms
*Adjective
(-)- We were ape over the new look.
- He went ape when he heard the bad news.
See also
* monkey * troop (collective noun) *Anagrams
* * * * ----anthropoid
English
(wikipedia anthropoid)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- 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.