Anthropoid means 'ape/human feature' and may refer to:
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Simian
The simians, anthropoids, or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes ) of primates containing all animals traditionally called monkeys and apes. More precisely, they consist of the parvorders New World monkey, Platyrrhini (New World mon ...
, monkeys and apes (anthropoids, or suborder Anthropoidea, in earlier classifications)
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Anthropoid apes, apes that are closely related to humans (e.g., former family Pongidae and sometimes also Hylobatidae and their extinct relatives)
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Anthropoides
''Grus'' is a genus of large birds in the crane (bird), crane family.
The genus ''Grus'' erected by the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson in 1760. The name ''Grus'' is the Latin word for "crane". The German ornithologist Peter Simon Pall ...
'', a genus of cranes
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Operation Anthropoid
Reinhard Heydrich, the commander of the German Reich Security Main Office (RSHA), the acting governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and a principal architect of the Holocaust, was assassinated during the Second World War in a coordin ...
, the codename for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, SS-Obergruppenführer and Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia
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Operation Anthropoid Memorial, Libeň, Prague, Czech Republic
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''Anthropoid'' (film), a 2016 film based on Operation Anthropoid
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pelvimetry
Pelvimetry is the measurement of the female human pelvis, pelvis. It can theoretically identify cephalo-pelvic disproportion, which is when the capacity of the pelvis is inadequate to allow the fetus to negotiate the birth canal. However, clinical ...
, one of four types of human female pelvis
*Anthropoid robots, mostly referred to as
androids
An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being, often made from a flesh-like material. Historically, androids existed only in the domain of science fiction and were frequently seen in film and television, but advances in robot techno ...
meaning human-like robots
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Anthropoid ceramic coffins, coffins of the Late Bronze Age Levant with human features that date from the 14th to 10th centuries BCE
See also
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Anthropology (disambiguation)
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Anthropod (disambiguation)
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Humanoid (disambiguation)
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