apeman

British

/ ˈeɪpˌmæn /

noun

any of various extinct apelike primates thought to have been the forerunners, or closely related to the forerunners, of modern man

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Slip and the Bowery Boys foil a madman out to put Sach’s brain in an apeman.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019

“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

It was not the voice of an apeman, or an apewoman, but held a human quality.

From B. C. 30,000 by Meek, S. P. (Sterner St. Paul)

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