Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pithecanthropus_erectus

1 sense of pithecanthropus erectus

Sense 1
Pithecanthropus, Pithecanthropus erectus, genus Pithecanthropus -- (former genus of primitive apelike men now Homo erectus)
       => hominid -- (a primate of the family Hominidae)