Ape-person

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.

    "The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe."

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"The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe."

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