ape-person
English
Noun
ape-person (plural ape-people)
- A non-human australopithecine; an ape-like precursor to modern humans.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, OCLC 1029993343:
- The openings of these huts and the branches of the trees were thronged with a dense mob of ape-people, whom from their size I took to be the females and infants of the tribe.
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