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anthropoids

anthropoids is the plural of anthropoid.

Meaning of anthropoid

Noun

anthropoid (plural anthropoids)

  1. An anthropoid animal.
    • 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.1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]...

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Questions about anthropoids

What is anthropoids the plural of?
Anthropoids is the plural of anthropoid.

Words near anthropoids in the dictionary

  1. anthropographic
  2. anthropographical
  3. anthropography
  4. anthropoid
  5. anthropoidal
  6. anthropoids
  7. anthropol
  8. anthropolater
  9. anthropolaters
  10. anthropolatric
  11. anthropolatrous

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