chou-k'ou-tien
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.59 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Example Sentences
- "He also made use of natural caves, one of which has been found at Chou-k’ou-tien. In the Middle Pleistocene, Chou-k’ou-tien was spotted with caves in the limestone formation at various levels."
- "The bony remains of Peking Man all came from a single limestone cave at Chou-k’ou-tien. The bones consist of fifteen crania, six facial bones, twelve mandibles, a miscellaneous collection of postcranial bones, and 147 teeth."
- "The morphology of the bones suggests an evolutionary stage just prior to Sinanthropus pekinensis, and comparable to that of the Pithecanthropus robustus from East Java; but Lan-t'ien man's tools are little inferior to those of Peking Man. The latter is better known, being represented by complete skulls and long bones discovered in excavations at the limestone caves of Chou-k'ou-tien, forty kilometres south-west of Peking."
- "In the collapsed caves of Chou-k’ou-tien in eastern China a sequence of deposits 50 metres (160 feet) thick has been excavated."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: 周口店, -