ˌplīōpə̇ˈthēkəs, -ōˈpithə̇kəs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from pleio- + -pithecus
: a genus of anthropoids found in the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene strata of Europe and possibly Asia having a very similar dentition to and commonly held to be ancestral to the gibbons