Anthropoid
Anthropoid means "resembling a human being", 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
- Anthropoid (film), a 2016 film based on Operation Anthropoid
- In pelvimetry, one of four types of human female pelvis
- Anthropoid animals, fictional creatures in the Japanese visual novel game Wanko to Kurasō
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See also
- Android (robot), a human-like robot
- Anthropod (disambiguation)
- Arthropod, the animal phylum including insects, arachnids, and crustaceans
- Humanoid
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