griphopith
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of a group of morphologically similar early hominids of the genera Griphopithecus and Kenyapithecus.
Example Sentences
- "Griphopiths from all locations have shared derived characters that make them unique and very different from the Early Miocene apes."
- "Griphopiths are the earliest hominids, and their appearance in Europe at least a million years earlier than in Africa suggests that our family most likely arose in Europe—and not, as has been long assumed, in Africa."
Etymology
From scientific Latin Griphopithecus (genus name).