ape-person
nounDefinitions
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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA