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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A proposed species of extinct humans described from a skull uncovered in a gravel bed in England in 1912 but determined in 1953 to be a fake constructed from a human cranium and the jawbone of an orangutan.
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- noun a supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Piltdown, Common in southeast England.]
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