Eoanthropus
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Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English eo- (“dawn”) + anthropo- (“man”) + Latin -us. From Ancient Greek ἠώς (ēṓs, “dawn”) + ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos, “human”).
Proper noun
[edit]Eoanthropus m
- (taxonomy, fraud, obsolete) A genus proposed for the Piltdown Man, a 20th-century hoax fossil.
Derived terms
[edit]- Eoanthropus dawsoni (Piltdown Man)