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Examples of anthropoid ape in a Sentence
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The pages that follow describe how the infant son of the dead Lord and Lady Greystoke is reared by an anthropoid ape named Kala and learns to survive and flourish in the African jungle.
—Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined above
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“Anthropoid ape.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anthropoid%20ape. Accessed 19 Sep. 2024.
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