PITHECANTHROPUS


Meaning of PITHECANTHROPUS in English

/pith'i kan"threuh peuhs, -keuhn throh"peuhs/ , n.

a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.

[ píthek ( os ) ape + ánthropos man ]

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