Meaning of apely | Babel Free
Definitions
Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
Examples
“There is now a danger, we presume, that people may do such things by the rules of Darwinism, but the author fails to inform⟳ us whether we are likely to select⟳ servants and intimate friends because they do, or because they do not, present⟳ in their faces and on their persons indications of their apely origin?”
“Our family is Hominidae, and we share⟳ it with four living species of great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans — as well as dozens of extinct predecessors of varying apely or humanesque traits.”
CEFR level
B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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