ape-man
a hypothetical primate representing a transitional form between true humans and the anthropoid apes, considered by some as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
a human assumed to have been reared by apes.
Origin of ape-man
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How to use ape-man in a sentence
Yet the apemen had frightened it away, in fact had compelled it to go without actually engaging in combat.
Above the deep rolling disturbance underground rose the shrill cries of the apemen.
Once again Carruthers rallied his army of apemen around him and attempted to drive the mammals away.
The apemen shrilled in a sudden panic and forgot all their previous training in driving off the dinosaurs.
If one of your little Apemen experiments with steam or dynamite and is blown to atoms, that is his own fault, not nature's.
Born Again | Alfred Lawson
British Dictionary definitions for apeman
/ (ˈeɪpˌmæn) /
any of various extinct apelike primates thought to have been the forerunners, or closely related to the forerunners, of modern man
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