A petrified human body, or part of one; a fossil of (supposedly) human origin. Also: a human figure made of stone; figurative a person without…

Physical Anthropology. Designating, relating to, or characteristic of a Middle Palaeolithic fossil hominid with a receding forehead and prominent…

A prehistoric human who lived in caves; (more generally) any prehistoric human.

Also Man. In abstract or generic sense. Now only without article. Chiefly Physical Anthropology. With modifying word, often the name of the place…

the human race as it existed before written historical accounts, personified as an individual; (more generally) the human race as it existed a…

A hypothetical creature bridging the gap in evolutionary development between apes and man. Obsolete.

Palaeontology. Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid whose fossil remains were first found in Java in 1891, now classified as Ho…

An extinct hominid that is believed to have spread from Africa to Europe and Asia about 2 million years ago and appears to have survived in Asia to…

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid, Homo heidelbergensis, first known from a robust fossil jaw found at Mauer near Heidelberg…

A supposed extinct hominid formerly given the name Eoanthropus dawsoni but subsequently shown to be a hoax (see Piltdown, n.). Cf. dawn man, n.

Usually with capital initials: the (fraudulent) Piltdown man, ‘Eoanthropus’. Also: any early extinct hominid.

A Neanderthal hominid.

the primitive hominid thought to be represented by the Piltdown skull, named Eoanthropus dawsoni and regarded by some as the missing link.

A man or woman of this period.

= Neanderthal, n. 1.

a fossil hominid similar to Neanderthal man, known from remains found at Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia), in 1921, formerly called…

characterized by the type of skull found at Boskop; also as n.

a fossil hominid of the middle Pleistocene, first described in 1926 (as Sinanthropus pekinensis) from remains found in caves in China and now…

The genus to which the fossil hominid Peking man (now classified as Homo erectus) was originally assigned; (also in form sinanthropus) a hominid…

Piltdown man; the Piltdown hoax. Also in extended use.

a person of the Predmost culture.

a human skeleton from the late Pleistocene found in Minnesota in 1931.

A Neanderthal hominid or similar Middle Palaeolithic hominid.

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from a Middle Pleistocene fossil skull found close to the River Murr at Steinheim…

Any of several extinct giant apes of the genus Gigantopithecus, known from fossil remains found in East and South Asia, and dated to between 9…

Any of several extinct fossil hominids of the former genus or subgenus Africanthropus, known from Pleistocene fossil remains found in South and…

A fossil hominid of the genus Paranthropus, known from remains found in southern Africa and sometimes assigned to Australopithecus; (also) the…

Piltdown man; a prehistoric man. Frequently in extended use: a person of primitive appearance, intelligence, or behaviour.

A large fossil hominid known from remains found in Java in 1941 and now usually included in Homo erectus; (also) a former genus to which this…

An extinct hominid known from fossil fragments found in a cave at Swartkrans near Sterkfontein, Johannesburg, South Africa, formerly known asTelant…

Used attributively with reference to an extinct hominid known from fossil remains found at Elandsfontein near Hopefield in Saldanha Bay, South…

A Pithecanthropus; any of various closely related hominids. Also figurative.

(a nickname for) an East African fossil hominid, Australopithecus boisei, with massive jaws and powerful premolar teeth, which was the maker of the…

An extinct hominid that is the earliest and most primitive known member of the human genus Homo, living in Africa between about 2.3 and 1.4 million…

A prehistoric human or hominid discovered as frozen remains, esp. in glacial ice.