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DRYOPITHECUS

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene

Synonyms:

Dryopithecus; genus Dryopithecus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Dryopithecus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Dryopithecus"):

dryopithecine (considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans)

Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus; rudapithecus (fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene)

Holonyms ("Dryopithecus" is a member of...):

family Hominidae; Hominidae (modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man)

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