apely

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

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Definition of apely

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of apes; simian.
    “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.”

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Etymology

From ape + -ly.

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