pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid

(Greek: ape, monkey)

Archeopithecus

Ancient monkey and ape species.

australopithecus

An extinct genus of small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.

cercopithecini

Cercopithecus

dryopithecine

Gigantopithecus

Leontopithecus

macedoniensis

Nyctipithecus

Otavipithecus

Ouranopithecus

Pitheca

Pithecanthropus (s), Pithecanthropi (pl)

1. A former genus of extinct hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
2. A hypothetical extinct primate intermediate between mankind and anthropoid apes.

pithecoid

pithecological

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pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid

(Greek: ape, monkey)

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