Usually means: Hoax; fake early human fossil.
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  1. piltdown man: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Piltdown man, Piltdown man: Merriam-Webster
  3. Piltdown man: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Piltdown man: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Piltdown man: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Piltdown man: Vocabulary.com
  7. Piltdown Man: Wiktionary
  8. Piltdown man: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Piltdown man: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Piltdown man: Dictionary.com
  11. Piltdown Man, Piltdown man: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Piltdown man: Rhymezone
  13. piltdown man: FreeDictionary.org
  14. piltdown man: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. Piltdown man: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Piltdown man: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Piltdown Man)

noun:  (taxonomy) A supposed early human theorized from bone fragments said to have been found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, in 1912, but later identified as a forgery.

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