Word Meanings - ANTHROPOIDEA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.

Related words: (words related to ANTHROPOIDEA)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PRIMATES
  The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SUBORDER
  A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
• PRIMATESHIP
  The office, dignity, or position of a primate; primacy.