apeman

apeman

English

Etymology

ape +‎ man

Noun

apeman (plural apemen)

1. A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.
   • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:

     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.

Related terms

• ape-person
• apewoman

Translations

prehistoric man resembling an ape

Afrikaans: oermens (af) Chinese: Mandarin: 猿人 (zh) (yuánrén) Dutch: aapmens (nl) m Estonian: ahvinimene Finnish: apinaihminen German: (please verify) Urmensh m, Affenmensh m, Java-Mensh m (Pithecanthropus erectus) Greek: πιθηκάνθρωπος (el) m (pithikánthropos) Japanese: please add this translation if you can Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: mirovê meymûn Portuguese: homem-macaco m Russian: обезьяночелове́к (ru) m (obezʹjanočelovék) Spanish: please add this translation if you can Turkish: maymun adam

Anagrams

• Penama, man ape