Word Finder - troglodytes

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A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.

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(by extension) Anything that lives underground.

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The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.

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A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.

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The Eurasian wren, Troglodytes troglodytes.

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A person who chooses not to keep up-to-date with the latest software and hardware.

It was not, however, till 1788 that the chimpanzee received what is now recognized as a scientific name, having been christened in that year Simia troglodytes by the naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin.

The first of these aberrant types is Schweinfurth's chimpanzee (Anthropopithecus troglodytes schweinfurthi), which inhabits the Niam-Niam country, and, although evidently belonging to the same species as the typical race, exhibits certain gorilla-like features.

More than twenty caves were discovered on the slope of a hill (Kirilov Street), and one of them, excavated in 1876, proved to have belonged to neolithic troglodytes.

One of the last (Collocalia troglodytes, Gray) constructs the edible nests so highly prized by the Chinese.

Sagartia troglodytes Many of the sandy pools contained the sea anemone Sagartia troglodytes although not in large numbers.

A vocabulary test for chimpanzees (pan troglodytes ).

Sagartia troglodytes with the tentacles retracted underneath a rock, with a drooping goblet appearance.

The Blemmyes, remaining pagan after the Nubas had embraced Christianity (6th century) were soon after driven from the Nile valley eastwards to the kindred Megabares, Memnons and other nomads, who, with the Troglodytes, had from time immemorial held the whole steppe region between the Nile and the Red Sea from Axum to Egypt.

A vocabulary test for chimpanzees (pan troglodytes).

Plumose, Beadlet and Sagartia troglodytes sea anemones were recorded.

The chimpanzee, scientific name Pan troglodytes, stands 3 to 4.5 feet tall and weighs 55 to 110 pounds.

Dr Thomas Savage, a missionary at the Gabun, who sent Owen information with regard to the original skull, had, however, himself proposed the name Troglodytes gorilla in 1847.