a. [f. prec. + -AL.] or anthropoid nature or structure.
1867. Transmut. Species, x. 137. How can we have got any faculty but as we derived it by improvement from our forefathers, the anthropoidal patriarchs of the tropical forests?
1882. Thompson, in Trans. Vict. Inst., 238. Until the first type of man emerged, when the anthropoidal [printed antropoidal] progenitor gradually became extinct.
