apeman
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apeman (plural apemen)
- A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- Only above the eyebrows, where the sloping forehead and low, curved skull of the ape-man were in sharp contrast to the broad brow and magnificent cranium of the European, could one see any marked difference.
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prehistoric man resembling an ape
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