ape-man
Americannoun
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ape-men
plural
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a hypothetical primate representing a transitional form between true humans and the anthropoid apes, considered by some as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
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a human assumed to have been reared by apes.
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Etymology
Origin of ape-man
First recorded in 1860–65; ape ( def. ) + man ( def. )
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What looks like an ape-man is probably a bear standing on its hind legs.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2019
In “2001,” an ape-man turns a bone into a weapon, initiating a progression that traces humanity from, as it’s been described, ape to angel.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2018
I like any kind of weird ape-man creature type stuff.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
Yet the most remarkable thing about this tiny ape-man is its age.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was definitely not a gorilla; she has since seen some of those at the Bronx Zoo, and this ape-man was nothing like them.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
We evolved from predecessors who had differently shaped skulls and often heavier builds, but were otherwise much more like us than, say, the ape-men that came before them.
From Time ● Jun. 7, 2017
There are discoveries to be made and mysteries to be solved, but not of lake serpents and preternaturally hard-to-photograph ape-men.
From Slate ● Nov. 23, 2012
The representatives of the advanced, scientific, galaxy-spanning organization were now the bad guys, and the heroes were positively medieval -- hereditary princes and princesses, wizards and ape-men.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2011
They looked partly human, partly simian, and Dubois decided that they belonged to an ancient race of ape-men.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the sound he had made before when he had seen or had tried to tell them of the ape-men.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
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