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PILTDOWN HOAX

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Overview

PILTDOWN HOAX (noun)
  The noun PILTDOWN HOAX has 1 sense:

1. a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoaxplay

  Familiarity information: PILTDOWN HOAX used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


PILTDOWN HOAX (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Piltdown hoax; Piltdown man

Hypernyms ("Piltdown hoax" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)


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