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Humans vs Anthropoid - What's the difference?

humans | anthropoid |

As nouns the difference between humans and anthropoid

is that humans is while anthropoid is an anthropoid animal.

As an adjective anthropoid is

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

humans

English

Noun

(head)
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    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