SINCE 1828
Piltdown man
noun
Pilt·down man
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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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