EOANTHROPUS

Meaning of EOANTHROPUS in English

/ee'oh an"threuh peuhs, -euhn throh"peuhs/ , n.

the genus to which the now-discredited Piltdown man was assigned.

[ eo- EO- + ánthropos man ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

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
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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