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anthropomorphous

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At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

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Quick take

suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things

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adjective

suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things

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Example sentences

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At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

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However, I quite sure that all of these still can be conveyed with humans as much as with animals and anthropomorphous trains/cars etc. The only reason city kid knows that rabbit is fast is because the kid seen it running in cartoon anyway.

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How do you use anthropomorphous in a sentence?

At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state as we may hope, than the Caucasian and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”

What does anthropomorphous mean?

suggesting human characteristics for animals or inanimate things

What part of speech is anthropomorphous?

anthropomorphous is commonly used as adjective.