Propliopithecus

noun

Pro·​pliopithecus

prō+

: a genus of small primitive short-jawed anthropoids from the Lower Oligocene of Egypt related to the gibbon but having the same dental formula as man

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pro- entry 1 + Pliopithecus

First Known Use

1910, in the meaning defined above

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