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Dryopithecine

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Noun

1. dryopithecine

considered a possible ancestor to both anthropoid apes and humans

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Dryopithecine

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noun
any extinct Old World ape of the genus Dryopithecus, common in Miocene and Pliocene times: thought to be the ancestors of modern apes

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Dryopithecine

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adjective
1. 
of or belonging to a genus (Dryopithecus) of fossil apelike animals
noun
2. 
a dryopithecine ape

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