pitheco-, pithec-, -pithecan, -pithecoid

(Greek: ape, monkey)


Archeopithecus (proper noun)
An ancient and extinct genus of Notoungulate: Archeopithecus belongs to the suborder Typotheria, and the animal was relatively small, like a rodent and weighed less than two kilos.
Australopithecus (proper noun)
A taxonomic genus of the extinct hominids: The small-brained, large-toothed bipedal hominids, which are related to humans, lived in Africa between one and four million years ago.
cercopithecini
Cercopithecus
dryopithecine
Gigantopithecus
Leontopithecus
macedoniensis
Nyctipithecus
Otavipithecus
Ouranopithecus
Pitheca
Pithecanthropus (s) (noun), Pithecanthropi (pl)
1. A former genus or grouping of extinct or non living hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Homo erectus.
2. A hypothetical family of primates that existed between mankind and primate apes.
pithecoid
pithecological