PITHECANTHROPUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pithecanthropi   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

Synonyms:

genus Pithecanthropus; Pithecanthropus; Pithecanthropus erectus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)

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