anthropoid ape

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   any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae

   Broaderape

   Narrowergreat apelesser ape

   Part ofAnthropoidea

Questions about anthropoid ape

What does anthropoid ape mean?

anthropoid ape means "any tailless ape of the families Pongidae and Hylobatidae".

Is anthropoid ape a common word?

anthropoid ape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.