apeman
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Yes, Tarzana Street in Encino is named for the wild-child apeman created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who bought Mil Flores, the 540-acre Encino ranch of Harrison Gray Otis with the fortune Tarzan made.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
“The Legend of Tarzan” is set for a collision course this weekend when the David Yates-directed apeman reboot swings into 3,450 locations.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2016
They show, she believes, that our species’s final intellectual transition, from apeman to modern human, must have occurred at a different time and place than previously thought.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2014
At its base was Australopithecus, the apeman that palaeoanthropologists had been recovering in southern Africa since the 1920s.
From Nature ● Apr. 2, 2014
And as Carruthers mentally studied the creature, strange and bizarre thoughts crossed his mind. he mouth of the white apeman twitched as if he were going to speak.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
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