Apeman

Quick meaning: Apeman is a noun meaning A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.

Meaning

A prehistoric man resembling an ape, especially one held to be a precursor to modern humans; a non-human australopithecine.

More Meanings

1. A human raised from childhood by apes (generally in reference to, or in imitation of, the fictional character Tarzan).
2. (cryptozoology) A reputed or legendary, large, bipedal, ape-like creature, as Bigfoot or the Yeti, or a primitive australopithecine still extant today.

Example Sentences

Apes leap to and fro, ape men swing from trees, and even a giant, menacing spider gets in on the act.

Human Nature has as its hero a caged ape man, and, like him, it has been hanging around for quite a while awaiting release.

How may we judge him, by what standards, this ape-man with the heart and head and body of an English gentleman, and the training of a wild beast?

Only above the eyebrows, where the sloping forehead and low, curved skull of the ape-man were in sharp contrast to the broad brow and magnificent cranium of the European, could one see any marked difference.

Word Forms

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ape-man, ape-person, prehuman, proto-human, protohuman, australopithecine.

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