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pithecanthropus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pithecanthropus  \Pith`e*can*thro"pus\,  n.  [NL.;  Gr  ?  ape  +  ? 
  man.] 
  1.  A  hypothetical  genus  of  primates  intermediate  between  man 
  and  the  anthropoid  apes. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Pithecanthropus 
  n  :  former  genus  of  primitive  apelike  men  now  Homo  erectus  [syn: 
  {Pithecanthropus},  {genus  Pithecanthropus}] 




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