EOANTHROPUS

Meaning of EOANTHROPUS in English

ˌē(ˌ)ōˈan(t)thrəpəs, -ˌanˈthrōpəs noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from eo- + -anthropus

in some classifications : a genus of the family Hominidae comprising only the Piltdown man

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

EOANTHROPUS — /ee'oh an"threuh peuhs, -euhn throh"peuhs/ , n. the genus to which the now-discredited Piltdown man was assigned. [ eo- EO- …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
EOANTHROPO — eo·anthropo (-tró-) n [Paleontol.] Eoanthropus, Piltdown man
Interlingua English vocab
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
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
MISSING LINK — hypothetical extinct creature halfway in the evolutionary line between modern human beings and their anthropoid progenitors. In the latter half …
Britannica English vocabulary
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

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