ape-person

noun

Definitions

  1. A non-human australopithecine

    A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.

    • The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.
    • The earliest fossils that can be classified as ape-persons have been found in South Africa and they date back about 5.5 million years.

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