All cercopithecoid synonyms

noun cercopithecoid

• hominoid — Anthropology. a member of the biological superfamily Hominoidea, including all modern great apes and humans and a number of their extinct ancestors and relatives.
• monkey — any mammal of the order Primates, including the guenons, macaques, langurs, and capuchins, but excluding humans, the anthropoid apes, and, usually, the tarsier and prosimians. Compare New World monkey, Old World monkey.
• human — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people: human frailty.
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• anthropoid — resembling man
• ape — Apes are chimpanzees, gorillas, and other animals in the same family.
• orangutan — a large, long-armed anthropoid ape, Pongo pygmaeus, of arboreal habits, inhabiting Borneo and Sumatra: an endangered species.
• gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
• chimpanzee — A chimpanzee is a kind of small African ape.
• gorilla — the largest of the anthropoid apes, Gorilla gorilla, terrestrial and vegetarian, of western equatorial Africa and the Kivu highlands, comprising the subspecies G. g. gorilla (western lowland gorilla) G. g. graueri (eastern lowland gorilla) and G. g. beringei (mountain gorilla) now rare.
• brachiator — any primate which swings by its arms from one hold to the next
• great ape — any of a group of anthropoid primates characterized by long arms, a broad chest, and the absence of a tail, comprising the family Pongidae (great ape) which includes the chimpanzee, gorilla, and orangutan, and the family Hylobatidae (lesser ape) which includes the gibbon and siamang.