Piltdown man

noun

Pilt·down man | \ ˈpilt-ˌdau̇n-

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Definition of Piltdown man

: a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed in the early 1900s from what was later determined to be human skull fragments and an orangutan lower jaw planted by a hoaxer

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