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DRYOPITHECINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans
Classified under:
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)