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pithecanthropoid
Variant of pithecanthropine
adjective
of, belonging to, or resembling a former genus (Pithecanthropus, now classified as Homo erectus) of extinct early humans, who lived in Java, China, Europe, and Africa
also pithecanthropoid
noun
a pithecanthropine human
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