Sinanthropus

[ sahy-nan-thruh-puhs, si-, sahy-nan-throh-puhs, sin-an- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

sinanthropus

/ sɪnˈænθrəpəs /

See Peking man, Java man
a primitive apelike man of the genus Sinanthropus, now considered a subspecies of Homo erectus See also Java man Peking man

sinanthropus

/ sī-năn′thrə-pəs,sĭ-,sī′năn-thrō′pəs,sĭn′ăn- /

An extinct hominid postulated from bones found in China in the late 1920s and originally designated Sinanthropus pekinensis in the belief that it represented a species evolutionarily preceding humans. Sinanthropus is now classified as Homo erectus.
Also called Peking man
See more at Homo erectus

From New Latin (1927), equivalent to Sin- “Chinese” + Greek ánthrōpos “man”; Sino-

C20: from New Latin, from Late Latin Sīnae the Chinese + -anthropus, from Greek anthrōpos man

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