Piltdown hoax — noun a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax • Syn: ↑Piltdown man • Hypernyms: ↑primitive, ↑primitive person … Useful english dictionary
Piltdown Man — Not to be confused with The Piltdown Men. Group portrait by John Cooke, 1915. Back row (from left): F O Barlow, G Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward. Front row: A S Underwood, Arthur Keith, W P Pycraft, and Sir Ray Lankester. The … Wikipedia
Piltdown man — /pilt down / a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis… … Universalium
Piltdown — Das Bild zeigt (von links) F. O. Barlow, Grafton Elliot Smith, Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward (stehend), Arthur Swayne Underwood, Arthur Keith, William Plane Pycraft und Ray Lankester (sitzend). Der Piltdow … Deutsch Wikipedia
Piltdown-Mensch — 50.9876820.062727999999993 Koordinaten: 50° 59′ N, 0° 4′ O … Deutsch Wikipedia
Piltdown man — noun a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax • Syn: ↑Piltdown hoax • Hypernyms: ↑primitive, ↑primitive person * * * Piltdown man [Piltdown man] a type of ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Piltdown man — [pilt′doun΄] n. a supposed species of prehistoric human presumed on the basis of skull fragments found in Piltdown (Sussex, England) about 1911 and exposed as a hoax in 1953 … English World dictionary
Hoax — A hoax is a deliberate attempt to dupe, deceive or trick an audience into believing, or accepting, that something is real, when in fact it is not; or that something is true, when in fact it is false. In an instance of a hoax, an object, or event … Wikipedia
Piltdown man — /ˈpɪltdaʊn mæn/ (say piltdown man) noun a supposedly very early form of the human species, Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from bone fragments found at Piltdown, Sussex, England in 1912; these were shown in 1953 to have been assembled… …
hoax — hoaxer, n. /hohks/, n. 1. something intended to deceive or defraud: The Piltdown man was a scientific hoax. v.t. 2. to deceive by a hoax; hoodwink. [1790 1800; perh. contr. of HOCUS] Syn. 1. deception, fraud, fake, imposture, humbug. * * * … Universalium
