Usually means: Early human ancestor, now outdated.
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  1. pithecanthropus: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pithecanthropus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pithecanthropus: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pithecanthropus: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pithecanthropus: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pithecanthropus, pithecanthropus: Wordnik
  7. Pithecanthropus: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. pithecanthropus: Dictionary.com
  9. pithecanthropus: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Pithecanthropus: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Pithecanthropus: Rhymezone
  12. pithecanthropus: FreeDictionary.org
  13. pithecanthropus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. pithecanthropus: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Pithecanthropus: Encyclopedia

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  1. pithecanthropus: A Word A Day

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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noun:  former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus

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