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Pithecoid   Listen
adjective
Pithecoid  adj.  (Zool.)
1.
Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.
2.
Of or pertaining to the anthropoid apes in particular, or to the higher apes of the Old World, collectively.





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... lifting her glasses to her eyes from time to time to relish the doctor's beauty, talked with a pedantic slowness about protoplasms, and the reproduction of the cells, the cannibalisms of the phagocytes, catarine, anthropoid and pithecoid apes, discoplacentary mammals and the Pithecanthropos, treating the mysteries of life with friendly confidence, repeating strange scientific words, as if they were the names of society folks, who had dined with her the ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez


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