Ape vs. Simian

Apenoun

A primate of the clade Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.

Apenoun

Any such primate other than a human.

Apenoun

(derogatory) An uncivilised person.

Apenoun

One who apes; a foolish imitator.

Apeverb

(intransitive) To behave like an ape.

Apeverb

(transitive) To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly.

Apeadjective

(slang) Wild; crazy.

Apenoun

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.

Apenoun

One who imitates servilely (in allusion to the manners of the ape); a mimic.

Apenoun

A dupe.

Apeverb

To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally.

Apenoun

any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all

Apenoun

someone who copies the words or behavior of another

Apenoun

person who resembles a non-human primate

Apeverb

imitate uncritically and in every aspect;

Apeverb

represent in or produce a caricature of;

Apenoun

a large primate that lacks a tail, including the gorilla, chimpanzees, orangutan, and gibbons.

Apenoun

used in names of macaque monkeys with short tails, e.g. Barbary ape.

Apenoun

(in general use) any monkey.

Apenoun

an unintelligent or clumsy person.

Apenoun

an inferior imitator or mimic

Apeverb

imitate (someone or something), especially in an absurd or unthinking way

Ape

Apes (Hominoidea ) are a branch of Old World tailless simians native to Africa and Southeast Asia. They are the sister group of the Old World monkeys, together forming the catarrhine clade.

Simianadjective

Of or pertaining to apes; apelike.

Simianadjective

Bearing resemblance to an ape.

Simiannoun

An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid.

Simianadjective

Of or pertaining to the family Simiadæ, which, in its widest sense, includes all the Old World apes and monkeys; also, apelike.

Simiannoun

an ape or monkey

Simianadjective

relating to or resembling an ape;

Simian

The simians, anthropoids or higher primates are an infraorder (Simiiformes ) of primates containing the parvorders Platyrrhini and Catarrhini, the latter of which consists of the superfamilies Cercopithecoidea and Hominoidea (including the genus Homo). The simians are sister to the tarsiers, together forming the haplorhines.