PILTDOWN MAN

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• PILTDOWN MAN (noun)
  The noun PILTDOWN MAN has 1 sense:

1. a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

  Familiarity information: PILTDOWN MAN used as a noun is very rare.

• PILTDOWN MAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Piltdown hoax; Piltdown man

Hypernyms ("Piltdown man" is a kind of...):

primitive; primitive person (a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization)