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pithecanthropoids

pithecanthropoids is the plural of pithecanthropoid.

Meaning of pithecanthropoid

Noun

pithecanthropoid (plural pithecanthropoids)

  1. One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.
    • And about 40,000 generations separate the australopithecines from their successors, the pithecanthropoids, whom we think of as the first animals that indisputably must be classed as men.1969, Robert Silverberg, The Challenge of Climate: Man and His Environment, page 87

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Questions about pithecanthropoids

What is pithecanthropoids the plural of?
Pithecanthropoids is the plural of pithecanthropoid.

Words near pithecanthropoids in the dictionary

  1. pithecanthropes
  2. pithecanthropic
  3. pithecanthropine
  4. pithecanthropines
  5. pithecanthropoid
  6. pithecanthropoids
  7. pitheciid
  8. pitheciids
  9. pitheciine
  10. pitheciines
  11. pithecism

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