Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to the pithecanthropi, or resembling them.
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Examples
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"I guess if I've been promoted from pithecanthropoid to anthropoid—" Tran fastened his belt and reached for his shirt.
THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK VONDA N.MCINTYRE 1990
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She says that our head has a very homely and bourgeois bullet shape, a sort of pithecanthropoid contour, which is revealed by a close trim.
Mince Pie Christopher Morley 1923
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