Dryopithecus

noun

Dry·​o·​pi·​the·​cus

-ˈpithə̇kəs

: a genus of generalized Miocene and Pliocene Old World apes sometimes regarded as common ancestral forms of the anthropoid apes and man

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from dry- + -pithecus

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