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ape-persons

ape-persons is the plural of ape-person.

Meaning of ape-person

Noun

ape-person (plural ape-people or ape-persons)

  1. A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
    • The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Questions about ape-persons

What is ape-persons the plural of?
Ape-persons is the plural of ape-person.

Words near ape-persons in the dictionary

  1. ape-girl
  2. ape-man
  3. ape-men
  4. ape-people
  5. ape-person
  6. ape-persons
  7. apeak
  8. APEC
  9. aped
  10. Apedale
  11. apedicellate

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