ape-person

English

Noun

ape-person (plural ape-people)

  1. A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:
      The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.
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