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 Meaning of ANTHROPOIDEA
|  WordNet Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | [n]  monkeys; apes; hominids |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  | Synonyms: |  | suborder Anthropoidea |  |  |  |  | See Also: |  | animal order, anthropoid ape, Cercopithecidae, family Cercopithecidae, family Hominidae, family Hylobatidae, family Pongidae, Hominidae, Hominoidea, Hylobatidae, order Primates, Platyrrhini, Pongidae, Primates, superfamily Hominoidea, superfamily Platyrrhini |  |     |  |  Webster's 1913 Dictionary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | \An`thro*poid"e*a\, n. pl. [NL. See {Anthropoid}.]
(Zo["o]l.)
The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes,
and man.
 |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |  |  Glossary |  |  |  |  | Definition: |  | suborder of the order Primates that includes the New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, apes, and humans. |  |  |  |  | Websites: |  |  |  |  |    |  |