Pliopithecus

noun

Plio·​pithe·​cus

ˌplīōpə̇ˈthēkəs,

-ōˈpithə̇kəs

: a genus of anthropoids found in the Upper Miocene and Lower Pliocene strata of Europe and possibly Asia having a very similar dentition to and commonly held to be ancestral to the gibbons

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from pleio- + -pithecus

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined above

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