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apelike

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Adj.1.apelike - resembling apesapelike - resembling apes                      
anthropoid, anthropoidal
nonhuman - not human; not belonging to or produced by or appropriate to human beings; "nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees"
2.apelike - being or given to servile imitationapelike - being or given to servile imitation
apish
imitative - marked by or given to imitation; "acting is an imitative art"; "man is an imitative being"
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I can visualize the entire scene--the apelike Grimaldi men huddled in their filthy caves; the huge pterodactyls soaring through the heavy air upon their bat-like wings; the mighty dinosaurs moving their clumsy hulks beneath the dark shadows of preglacial forests--the dragons which we considered myths until science taught us that they were the true recollections of the first man, handed down through countless ages by word of mouth from father to son out of the unrecorded dawn of humanity.
The People That Time Forgot by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The black apes were hairless and built thatched huts in their arboreal retreats; they kept domesticated dogs and ruminants, in which respect they were farther advanced than the human beings of Pellucidar; but they appeared to have only a meager language, and sported long, apelike tails.
Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
The fellow was short and stout, with an unusually low and degraded countenance and apelike arms.
The Beasts of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
 
 
 
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