anthropomorph
(ænˈθrəʊpəʊ-, ˈænθrəʊpəʊmɔːf)
[ad. Gr. ἀνθρωπόµορϕος: see anthropomorphous a.]
A representation of the human form in art.
In quot. 1894 used with sarcastic application.
| 1894 Daily News 26 Nov. 6/5 Your fashionable and self-adoring man or ‘anthropomorph’. 1895 A. C. Haddon Evol. Art 185 New Zealand is one of the places where anthropomorphs abound. 1913 J. Rendel Harris Boanerges ii. 14 There was an ornithomorph, and..several theriomorphs, before the anthropomorph. |