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Word: Pithecanthropus
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek pithēkos ‘ape’ + anthrōpos ‘man’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˌpɪθɪˈkanθrəpəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a former genus name applied to some fossil hominids found in Java in 1891.
Short Definition:former genus name applied to some fossil hominids found in Java in 1891
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