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
It may have evolved from an early ancestor of modern humans, an African species called Homo erectus, or possibly even an earlier apeman species.
From The Guardian • Sep. 12, 2015
At its base was Australopithecus, the apeman that palaeoanthropologists had been recovering in southern Africa since the 1920s.
From Nature • Apr. 2, 2014
The lips of the apeman moved painfully as if speech came with the utmost of difficulty.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
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