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Anthropoid meaning
Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance. | Having characteristics of a human, usually in terms of shape or appearance. | Of the pelvis, having an anteroposterior diameter equal or exceeding the transverse diameter.
Example sentences (4)
His mother, father and younger brother were among the closest collaborators of paratroopers Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik, from the Anthropoid paragroup in Prague, who, on May 27 1942, carried out the assassination of the Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich.
Most of the launch maps were on the smaller side, so I was happy that Anthropoid and Occupation had larger playing fields, making for better objective play.
In his 1934 pageant play The Rock, Eliot distances himself from Fascist movements of the thirties by caricaturing Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts, who 'firmly refuse/ To descend to palaver with anthropoid Jews'.
The body was then wrapped in linen with protective amulets inserted between layers and placed in a decorated anthropoid coffin.