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ape-man
[eyp-man]
noun
plural
ape-mena hypothetical primate representing a transitional form between true humans and the anthropoid apes, considered by some as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
a human assumed to have been reared by apes.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of ape-man1
Example Sentences
Next, the ape-man travels to Algeria to expose a traitor in the French Foreign Legion.
Dart therefore described the Taung Child as a ‘man-ape’ rather than an ‘ape-man’, like Java Man, and named the species Australopithecus africanus, which means southern ape from Africa.
What looks like an ape-man is probably a bear standing on its hind legs.
But after further inspection, he changed the name to Pithecanthropus erectus, an upright “ape-man.”
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.
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