ape-person
English
Noun
ape-person (plural ape-people)
- A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
- 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World:
- The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.
Related terms
- apeman
- apewoman