pithecomorphic
pithecomorphic adjective: having the form or characteristics of an ape; resembling apes.
Adjective
pithecomorphic (comparative more pithecomorphic, superlative most pithecomorphic)
- Having the form or characteristics of an ape; resembling apes.
- My apology for taking the Anthropomorphic, instead of the Pithecomorphic view of nature, is that I am a Man, and not an Ape, and therefore cannot help doing so; and I admit that my idea of the Creator is perhaps as clumsy as the illustration supposes, and that I can no more imagine an abstract...1866, Samuel Haughton, “Preface to Second Edition”, in Manual of Geology (Galbraight & Haughton's Scientific Manuals: Experimental and Natural Science Series), 2nd edition, London: Longmans, Green...
- I bave been arguing that human ethology is a “big field”, not one limited to proving what many of us have suspected all along—children are really just like animals. The present conservatism of human ethology is nevertheless useful for it is providing us with a sound bank of empirical data. We have...1977, Jerome H. Barkow, “Human ethology and intra-individual systems”, in Social Science Information, volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 142
Examples of pithecomorphic in a sentence
- We have had, after all, a sufficient number of pithecomorphic analyses of human behavior.1977, Jerome H. Barkow, “Human ethology and intra-individual systems”, in Social Science Information, volume 16, number 2, →DOI, page 142:
- XXXIV, middle register, scene 6.3. b: There appears to be a pithecomorphic vessel beneath the woman's stool.1999, John Coleman Darnell, “Res Bibliographicae: Three Tombs at Thebes [Review-article of Nigel Strudwick – Helen M. Strudwick, The Tombs...
Forms of pithecomorphic
| comparative | more pithecomorphic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pithecomorphic |
Origin of pithecomorphic
From pitheco- + -morphic.
Questions about pithecomorphic
- What does pithecomorphic mean?
- Pithecomorphic means having the form or characteristics of an ape; resembling apes.
- How do you use pithecomorphic in a sentence?
- We have had, after all, a sufficient number of pithecomorphic analyses of human behavior.
- What part of speech is pithecomorphic?
- Pithecomorphic is an adjective.
Words near pithecomorphic in the dictionary
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