PITHECANTHROPUS (pithecanthropi)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: pithecanthropi   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pithecanthropus mean? 

• PITHECANTHROPUS (noun)
  The noun PITHECANTHROPUS has 1 sense:

1. former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

  Familiarity information: PITHECANTHROPUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITHECANTHROPUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Pithecanthropus; Pithecanthropus; Pithecanthropus erectus

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

hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)

 Context examples 

One said it was the dryopithecus of Java, the other said it was pithecanthropus.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Next he touched upon the Indians, and upon the extraordinary colony of anthropoid apes, which might be looked upon as an advance upon the pithecanthropus of Java, and as coming therefore nearer than any known form to that hypothetical creation, the missing link.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)