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单词 dryopithecus
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Dryopithecusn.

Brit. /ˌdrʌɪə(ʊ)ˈpɪθᵻkəs/, U.S. /ˌdraɪoʊˈpɪθəkəs/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Dryopithecus.
Etymology: < scientific Latin Dryopithecus, genus name (E. Lartet 1856, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 43 221) < ancient Greek δρῦς tree (see dryad n.) + scientific Latin -o- + -pithecus (fossil) ape (see Pliopithecus n.).
Palaeontology.
Any of several extinct arboreal apes of the genus Dryopithecus, known from Miocene fossil remains and dated to between 25 and 9 million years ago. Also: the genus itself.Thought to include the common ancestor of lesser apes and great apes, Dryopithecus is sometimes taken to incorporate other genera such as Sivapithecus.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Pongidae (ape) > fossil or extinct types
Dryopithecus1862
Sivapithecus1915
Australopithecus1925
Proconsul1933
Ramapithecus1934
Plesianthropus1938
australopithecine1941
australopith1949
Kenyapithecus1961
ramapithecine1972
Afropithecus1986
1862 Geologist 5 428 The shaft of the supposed humerus of the Dryopithecus, from the miocene of the South of France.
1912 A. Keith Human Body iv. 58 The very earliest of the large fossil anthropoids which have yet been discovered is the kind now named Dryopithecus.
1973 B. J. Williams Evol. & Human Origins ix. 127/2 The genus Dryopithecus is ancestral to the present-day African pongids, the gorilla and chimpanzee.
2002 J. Agustí & M. Antón Mammoths, Sabertooths, & Hominids 149 The evolution from quadrupedism to bipedism would have taken place..directly from the arboreal suspensory locomotion found in Dryopithecus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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