单词 | Piltdown man |
释义 | Piltdown man/ˈpɪltdaʊn /noun A fraudulent fossil composed of a human cranium and an ape jaw, allegedly discovered near Lewes in East Sussex and presented in 1912 as a genuine hominid of the early Pleistocene, but shown to be a hoax in 1953. OriginPiltdown, the name of a village in Sussex. |
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