pithecanthropoidadj.
/ˌpɪθɪˈkanθrəpɔɪd/, U.S. /ˌpɪθəˈkænθrəˌpɔɪd/ = pithecanthropic adj.
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the world > people > protohuman > [adjective]
Cro-Magnon1869
palaeanthropic1890
pithecanthropoid1890
pithecanthropic1897
theriozoic1898
Combe-Capelle1911
Piltdown1912
Predmost1912
Boskop1915
hominid1915
Neanderthalian1920
Tardenoisian1921
pithecanthropine1925
Sinanthropic1931
Solo1932
Florisbad1935
Steinheim1935
Sinanthropoid1937
Swanscombe1937
robust1971
the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > Old World > of superfamily Hominoidea > like the hypothetical ape-man
pithecanthropoid1890
1890 Cent. Dict. Pithecanthropoid, relating to the pithecanthropi, or resembling them.
1899 Amer. Anthropologist 1 420 The prominent facts of cranial size and structure revealed in the pithecanthropoid and higher types..shed some light on the features and functions of the human prototype.
1929 A. Crowley Spirit of Solitude I. xvii. 198 I was absorbed in ‘The Cloud on the Sanctuary’, reading it again and again without being put off by the Pharisaical, priggish and pithecanthropoid notes of its translator, Madame de Steiger.
1958 L. Durrell Mountolive xiii. 251 He mopped his brow continually, and gave his ingratiating pithecanthropoid grimace.
1979 ‘C. Brand’ Rose in Darkness v. 44 Like an archaeologist, building up the whole structure of ancient man from a single tooth..pithecanthropoid man.
2001 Independent (Nexis) 27 Dec. 16 Making them too apeish deprived us of one of the book's highlights, the moment where Challenger comes across his pithecanthropoid double.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1890