apeman

English

Etymology

From 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, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     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
• Swedish: apmänniska (sv)
• Turkish: maymun adam

Anagrams

• Penama, man ape