Neanderthal
[ni'ændətɑ:l;-θɔ:l]
Definition
(adj.) relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; 'Neanderthal skull' .
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Examples
- The Mousterian Age implements, and all above it, are those of Neanderthal men or, possibly in the case of the rostro-carinates, of sub-men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the best-known Neanderthal skeletons is that of a youth who apparently had been deliberately interred. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drew and painted on the cliffs and cave walls that they had wrested from the Neanderthal men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If republican Rome was the first of modern self-governing national communities, she was certainly the Neanderthal form of them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Much less is it an intermediate form between the Heidelberg man and the Neanderthal man we shall presently describe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That is at least an acceptable sketch of a Neanderthal squatting-place. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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