Difference between Ape and Anthropoid

What is the difference between Ape and Anthropoid?

Ape as an adjective is wild; crazy. while Anthropoid as an adjective is having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearance

Ape

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Wild; crazy.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An animal of a class of primates generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail. An uncivilised person.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To imitate.

Example sentence: The country is provincial; it becomes ridiculous when it tries to ape Paris.

Anthropoid

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having characteristics of a human being, usually in terms of shape or appearancehaving characteristics of an ape

We hope you now know whether to use Ape or Anthropoid in your sentence.

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