DRYOPITHECUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dryopithecus mean? 

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

1. genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DRYOPITHECUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Dryopithecus; genus Dryopithecus

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Dryopithecus"):

dryopithecine (considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans)

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

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

family Hominidae; Hominidae (modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man)

 Context examples 

One said it was the dryopithecus of Java, the other said it was pithecanthropus.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)