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PRONUNCIATION OF PITHECANTHROPOID

pithecanthropoid  [ˌpɪθɪˈkænθrəˌpɔɪd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITHECANTHROPOID

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pithecanthropoid is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PITHECANTHROPOID MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pithecanthropoid

Java Man

Java Man is the name given to fossils discovered in 1891 at Trinil - Ngawi Regency on the banks of the Solo River in East Java, Indonesia, one of the first known specimens of Homo erectus. Its discoverer, Eugène Dubois, gave it the scientific name Pithecanthropus erectus, a name derived from Greek and Latin roots meaning upright ape-man.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PITHECANTHROPOID


android
ˈændrɔɪd
annoyed
əˈnɔɪd
anthropoid
ˈænθrəˌpɔɪd
avoid
əˈvɔɪd
Boyd
bɔɪd
factoid
ˈfæktɔɪd
Freud
frɔɪd
groupoid
ˈɡruːpɔɪd
humanoid
ˈhjuːməˌnɔɪd
lipoid
ˈlɪpɔɪd
Lloyd
lɔɪd
paranoid
ˈpærəˌnɔɪd
philanthropoid
fɪlˈænθrəˌpɔɪd
Polaroid
ˈpəʊləˌrɔɪd
polypoid
ˈpɒlɪˌpɔɪd
steroid
ˈstɪərɔɪd
thyroid
ˈθaɪrɔɪd
unemployed
ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪd
vespoid
ˈvespɔɪd
void
vɔɪd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITHECANTHROPOID

piteousness
pitfall
pith
pith helmet
pithball
pithead
pithecanthropi
pithecanthropine
pithecanthropus
pithecoid
pithful
pithier
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pithily
pithiness
pithless
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pithoi
pithos
pithy

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITHECANTHROPOID

amyloid
asteroid
benzenoid
celluloid
colloid
corticosteroid
dermoid
devoid
erythroid
hyperthyroid
lymphoid
mucoid
myeloid
opioid
pemphigoid
rheumatoid
rhomboid
solenoid
trapezoid
typhoid

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Translator English - Norwegian

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pithecanthropoid

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITHECANTHROPOID»

Discover the use of pithecanthropoid in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pithecanthropoid and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Creation and Cosmology: A Historical and Comparative Inquiry
Two other skulls of the same pithecanthropoid type of Hominid have been revealed in the same geological deposits in Java by von Koeningswald in 1937 and 1938. ') In China pithecanthropoid characteristics recurred in the fossil remains of a ...
E. O. James, 1969
2
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
It is also possible that the pithecanthropoid Bolgani had fathered enough hybrids to have established the lowbrowed long-armed traits of the gomangani slaves. The small brain power of the slaves may not have been due to genetic factors, ...
Philip Jos‰ Farmer, Win Scott Eckert, 2006
3
Biennial Review of Anthropology 1965
The first, H. erectus, includes many pithecanthropoid fossils of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Archaeological evidence, discussed by Howell and Clark (86) and by Leakey (110), indicates that H. erectus was responsible for the development of ...
Biennial Review of Anthropology 1965, 1965
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Nature
Emil Selenka, who did more than any man of his time to advance our knowledge of the higher primates, saw very clearly that the right way to solve the Pithecanthropoid problems was not discussion, but exploration. After his death in 1902, his ...
Sir Norman Lockyer, 1911
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South-East Asia
unearthed in northern Indo-China. We may perhaps assume that pithecanthropoid man spread gradually northwards into China from tropical South-east Asia, undergoing further evolution along the way. The two types, Java Man and Peking ...
Stuart Craig, 1960
6
Clocks for the Ages: How Scientists Date the Past
Another pithecanthropoid population existed in mid- Pleistocene China. This was shown by fossils uncovered beginning in 1927, near Peking: first a tooth, then skulls, jaws, legbones. Thousands of tools made of flaked pieces of quartz and ...
Robert Silverberg, 1971
7
Mince Pie: Adventures on the Sunny Side of Grub Street
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. After five weeks' growth, however, we begin to look quite distinguished. The difficulty then is to ...
Christopher Morley, 1919
8
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories ...
And saw the cubist figure and pithecanthropoid visage of Hoppy Uniatz coming through the door with a smoking Betsy in its hairy hand. He heard another thud on his right, and looked round. The thud was caused by Quintus' gun hitting the ...
Otto Penzler, 2008
9
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2 Volume Set
Even greater success came during excavations at Ternifine (now called Tighenif) during 1954-5 where he found crude Acheulean tools and several mandibles that he attributed to a “pithecanthropoid” form of early human that he called ...
Bernard Wood, 2011
10
Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
Alas, was thereno pithecanthropoid Jeremiah who, horrified at the vainglory of the young, would scramble to some lofty place and cryout against thisswagger? Wouldcryouttohis fellow man, "Down,youfools. Get down, before itistoo late"?
Richard Selzer, 1996

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