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Pithecanthropus

Definition: Pithecanthropus

Pithecanthropus

Noun

1. Former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "Pithecanthropus" was first used: 1876. (references)

Etymology: Pithecanthropus \Pith`e*can*thro"pus\, noun. [NL.; Greek ape man.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Pithecanthropus

Synonym: genus Pithecanthropus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pithecanthropus

English words defined with "Pithecanthropus": genus Pithecanthropushomo erectusJava manPithecanthropus erectusTrinil man. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pithecanthropus

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Books

  • Auf den Spuren des Pithecanthropus : Leben und Werk von Professor Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902-1982) : Vortrèage einer akademischen Gedèachtnisfeier am 20. November 1983 im Senckenberg-Museum, Frankfurt am Main (reference)

  • Man-ape, ape-man : Pithecanthropus in het Pesthuis, Leiden (reference)

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Music

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Image Slideshow: Pithecanthropus

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Pithecanthropus

"Pithecanthropus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pithecanthropus" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Pithecanthropus

Expressions using "Pithecanthropus": genus Pithecanthropus pithecanthropus erectus. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pithecanthropus

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pithecanthropus erectus

5

pithecanthropus

5
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Modern Translations: Pithecanthropus

Language Translations for "Pithecanthropus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏البدائية (pithecanthrope). (various references)

   

French

  

pithécanthrope (pithecanthrope). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"ストン輸送 (ice axe, period, periodic, PHS portable phone, piccolo, pick, picking, pickoff play, pickup service, pilaf, pile, Pilgrim Fathers, pill, pilling, pipette, piranha, pit, pit stop, pitch, pitcher, pitcher's mound, pitching, pitching machine, pitchout, Pithecanthropus erectus, pivot, pizza, pizzicato, Pulitzer, pure, pure malt, puree, purist, Puritan, pyramid, pyramid selling, pyrine, shuttle, splashing sound, stilt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"テカントロプスエレクトゥス (Pithecanthropus erectus). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ithecanthropuspay

   

Russian 

  

питекантроп (pithecanthrope). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pitecántropo (pithecanthrope). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

java insanı, insana benzer büyük fosil. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

пітекантроп (pithecanthrope). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Pithecanthropus

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

pithekos. (various references)

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Misspellings: Pithecanthropus

Misspellings

"Pithecanthropus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pithecanthropes. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pithecanthropus"

Words rhyming with "Pithecanthropus" (pronounced 'Pith`e*can*thro"pus'): Apus, Campus, Canopus, Carpus, Cippus, Corpus, grampus, hippocampus, lupus, mesohippus, metacarpus, Miohippus, mopus, Opus, Orohippus, Palpus, Pappus, Pedipalpus, Pliohippus, Porpus, Protohippus, rumpus, Scapus. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pithecanthropus

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-h-i-n-o-p-p-r-s-t-t-u"

-3 letters: nephropathic, triphosphate.

-4 letters: antistrophe, eructations, euphoriants, hierophants, neuropathic, precautions, reputations.

-5 letters: anchorites, anorthites, antechoirs, authorship, carnotites, constipate, epiphanous, eructation, euphoriant, hierophant, housetrain, introspect, nephrotics, nuthatches, outpitches, pasticheur, paunchiest, phosphatic, pinspotter, porcupines, pothunters, precaution, prosthetic, raunchiest, reappoints, reputation, rheostatic, supertonic, supraoptic, theophanic, unactorish, unhappiest.

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Alternative Orthography: Pithecanthropus


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 69 74 68 65 63 61 6E 74 68 72 6F 70 75 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101001 01110100 01101000 01100101 01100011 01100001 01101110 01110100 01101000 01110010 01101111 01110000 01110101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#105 &#116 &#104 &#101 &#99 &#97 &#110 &#116 &#104 &#114 &#111 &#112 &#117 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0069 0074 0068 0065 0063 0061 006E 0074 0068 0072 006F 0070 0075 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

507586747169678086748481828785

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Usage Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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