Dryopithecus

Dry·o·pith·e·cus

 (drī′ə-pĭth′ĭ-kəs)

n.

A genus of extinct apes known from Miocene and Pliocene fossil remains found in Africa and Eurasia and believed to be ancestral to the living great apes, including humans.

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[New Latin Dryopithēcus, genus name : Greek drūs, oak (in reference to the apes' arboreal lifestyle and to the fossil remains of oak found in the same area as some of the first known specimens of the genus); see deru- in Indo-European roots + Greek pithēkos, ape.]

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Dryopithecus - genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene genus Dryopithecus mammal genus - a genus of mammals family Hominidae, Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man dryopithecine - considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus, rudapithecus - fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene

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