paluxy man
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A hypothesized, and subsequently discredited early human who was contemporaneous with dinosaurs, based on fossil footprints found in the same limestone bed for both a species of dinosaur and a for a human (subsequently shown to be a tridactyl).
Example Sentences
- "Langston also noted that one of the most widely reproduced footprint photos of Paluxy man shows a portion of a poor print of a tridactyl dinosaur; this may be clear, however, only to someone who, having studied the anatomy of the dinosaur foot, knows what to look for."
- "Cryptozoology: The study of Bigfoot, Paluxy Man, the Loch Ness Monster, the Abominable Snowman (Yetti) and other things that go bump in the night."
- "The upshot was that the evidence against was so substantive and so convincing that a self-proclaimed creation scientist subsequently rejected his authentication of the Paluxy Man and caused his publisher to recall the book he'd written about it."