Troglodyte

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A member of a fabulous or prehistoric race of people that lived in caves, dens, or holes.
  • n. A person considered to be reclusive, reactionary, out of date, or brutish.
  • n. An anthropoid ape, such as a gorilla or chimpanzee.
  • n. An animal that lives underground, as an ant or a worm.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
  • n. Anything that lives underground.
  • n. A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
  • n. The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.
  • n. A person who chooses not to keep up-to-date with the latest software and hardware.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, or cave man. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
  • n. An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
  • n. The wren.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Inhabiting caverns; cavedwelling; cavernicolous; spelæan; troglodytic: specifically noting human beings, apes, and birds.
  • n. A cave-dweller; a caveman; one who lives in a naturally formed cavity in the rocks, or, by extension, one who has his abode in a dwelling-place of that kind, whether constructed by enlarging a natural cave or by making an entirely new excavation.
  • n. Hence, one living in seclusion; one unacquainted with the affairs of the world.
  • n. In mammalogy, an anthropoid ape of the genus Troglodytes, as the chimpanzee or the gorilla, especially the former, which was earlier known to naturalists and was called Simia troglodytes.
  • n. In ornithology, a wren of the genus Troglodytes or family Troglodytldæ. The term is a misnomer, since no wrens live in caves.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who lives in a cave
  • n. one who lives in solitude
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    primitive person    primitive   
    Form
    troglodytic    trog    Pan troglodytes   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    brontosaurus    nitrone    prehuman    vacant-looking    multifamily   
     
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