Pithecanthropus

Pithecanthropus
/pith'i kan"threuh peuhs, -keuhn throh"peuhs/, n.
a former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
[ < NL (1891) < Gk píthek(os) ape + ánthropos man]

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      former genus name assigned to fossil hominids including Java man (q.v.) and Peking man (q.v.), both now classified as Homo erectus.

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