pithecanthropoid

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or characteristic of the pithecanthropoids. not-comparable
    — 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!

词形变化

pithecanthropoids plural

词源

词源 1
Pithecanthropus + -oid
词源 2
Pithecanthropus + -oid
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