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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.

Origin

Piltdown, the name of a village in Sussex.

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