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形容詞

monkeylike (comparative more monkeylike, superlative most monkeylike)

1. Resembling or similar to a monkey.

   Synonym: monkeyish

   a monkeylike skull

   monkeylike curiosity

   • 2008 March 4, John Noble Wilford, “One-Ounce Mississippian of 55.8 Million Years Ago”, in The New York Times‎:

     It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi.

参考

• simian

副詞

monkeylike (not comparable)

1. In the manner of a monkey.