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Anthropoid

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Anthropoid means 'ape/human feature' and may refer to:

  • Simian, monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications)
  • Anthropoid apes, apes that are closely related to humans (e.g., former family Pongidae and sometimes also Hylobatidae and their extinct relatives)
  • Anthropoides, a genus of cranes
  • Operation Anthropoid, the codename for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia
  • In pelvimetry, one of four types of human female pelvis
  • Anthropoid robots, mostly referred to as androids meaning human-like robots

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