Definition of "pithecoid" []

• Resembling or relating to the apes, especially the anthropoid apes. (adjective)
• Of or belonging to a genus (Pithecia) of small slender South American monkeys related to the titi. (adjective)

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• "A traveller well known to me once proposed to breed pithecoid men who might be useful as hewers of wood and drawers of water: his idea was to put the highest races of apes to the lowest of humanity."
• "At most, they demonstrate the existence of a man whose skull may be said to revert somewhat towards the pithecoid type — just as a"
• "So large a mass of brain as this, would alone suggest that the pithecoid tendencies, indicated by this skull, did not extend deep into the organization; and this conclusion is borne out by the dimensions of the other bones of the skeleton given by Professor"