From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishanthropoidan‧thro‧poid /ˈænθrəpɔɪd/ adjective HBAan anthropoid animal, such as an ape, looks like a human —anthropoid noun [countable]
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anthropoid• The anthropoid coffin is associated almost exclusively with the burial vault.• A slightly later anthropoid shell of the 1630s in the same vault displays an alternative technique.• In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.• Amongst them are two very small anthropoid shells, one of 1617, the other of 1618. 