PILTDOWN

Meaning of PILTDOWN in English

Piltdown BrE AmE ˈpɪlt daʊn

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PILTDOWN MAN — noun Etymology: Piltdown, East Sussex, England Date: circa 1918 a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed from a combination of …
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PILTDOWN HOAX — Forgery of human fossil remains that impeded early 20th-century progress in the study of human evolution. The apparently fossilized skull …
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PILTDOWN MAN — ˈpiltˌdau̇n- noun Usage: usually capitalized P Etymology: from Piltdown, East Sussex, England : a supposedly very early primitive modern man …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PILTDOWN MAN — /pilt"down'/ a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PILTDOWN MAN — noun Etymology: Piltdown, East Sussex, England Date: circa 1918 : a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed from a combination …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PILTDOWN MAN — [Pilt.down man] n [Piltdown, East Sussex, England] (ca. 1918): a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed from a combination of …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PILTDOWN MAN — also called Dawson's dawn man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), proposed species of extinct hominid whose fossil remains, discovered in England in 191012, …
Britannica English vocabulary
PILTDOWN MAN — Pilt ‧ down Man /ˌpɪltdaʊn ˈmæn/ BrE AmE noun [uncountable] an early type of human being that was believed to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PILTDOWN HOAX — Forgery of human fossil remains that impeded early 20th-century progress in the study of human evolution. The apparently fossilized skull …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
PILTDOWN MAN — a type of prehistoric human being that was believed to exist in ancient times. Piltdown man was ‘discovered’ when some …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
EOANTHROPO — eo·anthropo (-tró-) n [Paleontol.] Eoanthropus, Piltdown man
Interlingua English vocab
KOSHER — I. ˈkōshə(r) adjective or ka·sher käˈshe(ə)r, -eə Etymology: Yiddish kosher, from Hebrew kāshēr fit, proper 1. : sanctioned by Jewish …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HOAX — I. ˈhōks transitive verb ( -ed/-ing/-es ) Etymology: probably by contraction of hocus : to trick into believing or accepting …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
EOANTHROPUS — ˌē(ˌ)ōˈan(t)thrəpəs, -ˌanˈthrōpəs noun Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from eo- + -anthropus in some classifications : a genus of the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DAWN MAN — noun Usage: often capitalized D&M Etymology: translation of New Latin Eoanthropus 1. : a primitive extinct man 2. : piltdown …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HOAX — — hoaxer , n. /hohks/ , n. 1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EOANTHROPUS — /ee'oh an"threuh peuhs, -euhn throh"peuhs/ , n. the genus to which the now-discredited Piltdown man was assigned. [ eo- EO- …
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PRIMATE — in zoology, any member of the mammalian order Primates, which includes the prosimians, monkeys, apes, and man. The order has …
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MISSING LINK — hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. In the latter half …
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OAKLEY, KENNETH (PAGE) — born April 7, 1911, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, Eng. died Nov. 2, 1981, Amersham English physical anthropologist, geologist, and paleontologist best known …
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BLACK, DAVIDSON — born July 25, 1884, Toronto, Ont., Can. died March 15, 1934, Peking, China Canadian physician and physical anthropologist who first …
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MAN — n. & v. --n. (pl. men) 1 an adult human male, esp. as distinct from a woman or boy. 2 …
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MAN — n. & v. n. (pl. men) 1 an adult human male, esp. as distinct from a woman or boy. 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
MAN — n. & v. --n. (pl. men) 1. an adult human male, esp. as distinct from a woman or boy. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
STONE AGE BRITAIN — The earliest archaeological remains found in Britain are tools thought to have been made before 12000 BC, when Britain was …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
MAN — n. 1) an average; fat; grown; handsome; middle-aged; old; short; tall; thin; ugly; wise; young ~ 2) Cro-Magnon; Heidelberg; Java; …
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