pithecanthropoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
29
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.
adj
Pertaining to or characteristic of the pithecanthropoids.
Example Sentences
- "And about 40,000 generations separate the australopithecines from their successors, the pithecanthropoids, whom we think of as the first animals that indisputably must be classed as men."
- "They may in fact have been disposed of more directly: pithecanthropoids certainly ate each other and are likely to have killed and eaten their weaker kin."
- "The brow is without the frontal overhang found in adult pithecanthropoids, but though there is no supra-orbital ridge, there is marked post-orbital constriction."
- "God! those carrion black pits of sawed, picked bones and opened skulls! Those nightmare chasms choked with the pithecanthropoid, Celtic, Roman, and English bones of countless unhallowed centuries!"
- "3°. by the strong development of the mid-frontal fissure, which is predominant in the relief of Neanderthal casts, and more primitive (more pithecanthropoid) in its character than in recent men, where it is mostly divided up into pieces, probably in consequence of the greater development of the foot of the mid-frontal convolution (see my first paper)."
- "Culture was the work of some more or less pithecanthropoid type of hominid (e.g. Telanthropus) at a period when the Australopithecines were still flourishing."