DRYOPITHECINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dryopithecine mean? 

• DRYOPITHECINE (noun)
  The noun DRYOPITHECINE has 1 sense:

1. considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans

  Familiarity information: DRYOPITHECINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRYOPITHECINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("dryopithecine" is a kind of...):

hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dryopithecine"):

Dryopithecus Rudapithecus hungaricus; rudapithecus (fossil hominoids from northern central Hungary; late Miocene)

Holonyms ("dryopithecine" is a member of...):

Dryopithecus; genus Dryopithecus (genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene)