dryopithecine

Definitions of dryopithecine
  1. noun
    considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans
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    types:
    Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus, rudapithecus
    fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene
    type of:
    hominid
    a primate of the family Hominidae
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