Usually means: Resembling an ancient human-like ape.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (pithecanthropoid)

noun:  One of the first species of hominid that is considered truly human, originally classed as genus Pithecanthropus but now classed as genus Homo.
adjective:  Pertaining to or characteristic of the pithecanthropoids.

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