Sentence examples for simial from inspiring English sources

A very rich, slightly shy, faintly simian Welsh footballer.

There's no comparison with the plastic masks used in the original "Planet of the Apes" (1968), or even in Tim Burton's 2001 remake.The film is set ten years after the end of "Rise", when a laboratory-generated "simian flu" made apes as intelligent as humans, while conveniently wiping out the majority of the earth's Homo sapiens population.

While their simian counterparts wolf down six times as many leaves per day, sloths can take up to a week to digest a single leaf.

They seem to have a limited "theory of mind"—the ability to work out what others are thinking which is an obvious prerequisite for the would-be simian politician.

Chimpanzees (and also many species of monkey) sometimes carry viruses called SIVs (simian immunodeficiency viruses).

Yet as far as can be seen, these so-called simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) have little impact on their hosts' health.Frank Kirchhoff and Michael Schindler, of the University of Ulm, in Germany, and their colleagues have been looking into why that is.

Many simian viruses (Marburg fever, Lassa fever and Ebola fever, to name but three) are able to thrive in people, to the fatal detriment of their hosts, but none of these has become epidemic.

So, although Dr Bozek and her colleagues did not actually compare individual people, when geeks refer to jocks in disparagingly simian terms they may have hit on an underlying reality.

Experience has shown that these monkeys display the simian equivalent of the Whitehall studies' findings.

At least Kellogg's provided a spirited defence of their "spokes-simian".

Not up on lucky miniature simian-rubbing, I gave the experience a miss.