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Dryopithecus|ˌdraɪəʊpɪˈθiːkəs, -ˈpɪθɪkəs|
[mod.L. (E. Lartet 1856, in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. XLIII. 221), f. Gr. δρῦς tree + πίθηκος ape.]
A genus of fossil anthropoid apes of the Miocene period in France. So dryopithecine |-ˈpɪθɪsiːn| a., pertaining to this genus; dryopithecoid |-pɪˈθiːkɔɪd| a., resembling this genus.
1862Geologist V. 428 The shaft of the supposed humerus of the Dryopithecus, from the miocene of the South of France. 1863C. Lyell Antiquity of Man xxiv. 499 Fossil apes... One of these, the Dryopithecus of Lartet, a gibbon or long-armed ape, about equal to man in stature, was obtained in the year 1856 in the upper miocene strata at Sansan, near the foot of the Pyrenees. 1912A. Keith Human Body iv. 58 The very earliest of the large fossil anthropoids which have yet been discovered is the kind now named Dryopithecus. 1937Nature 20 Feb. 326/2 If Australopithecus is not literally a missing link between the older dryopithecoid group and primitive man, what conceivable combination of ape and human characters would ever be admitted as such? 1939Ibid. 2 Sept. 451/2 A primitive dryopithecine stage. 1957Antiquity XXXI. 191 The Dryopithecine canine [tooth] was too large and specialized. |