The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.
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Troglodyte
/ˈtɹɑɡlədaɪt/
Synonyms for "troglodyte" (46 found)
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Noun(2 words)
cave dwellerbackward thinker
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Related words (23)
Noun(8 words)
hominidhominidaehumanoidiron age manman of oldmissing linkneanderthalpreadamiteprehistoric manprehumanprimateprimitiveprotohumansavagestone age man
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7 entriescave adapted invertebratecultural fossilneolithic cave inhabitantpaleolithic cave dwellerstone age thinkertroglobitetroglophile
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6 entriesancient troglodytemodern troglodytetroglodyte behaviortroglodyte mentalitytroglodyte stereotypetroglodytic cave dwelling
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Inhabited as early as the Gallo-Roman era, the caves of the troglodytes are slighted in guidebooks, naturally overshadowed by the chateaus of the kings.
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Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it thought it was coming up. Robert Philp thought Blair's ...
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