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neanderthal
/niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/
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What does neanderthal mean?
adjective
- Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal.
- Of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis.
noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Neanderthal.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the Neander Valley in Germany.
- (derogatory) Old-fashioned, opposed to change.
- (derogatory) Primitive, savage or uncivilized.
noun
- A specimen of the now extinct species Homo neanderthalensis.
- (derogatory) A primitive, savage or uncivilized person.
- (derogatory) A white person.
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/niˈæn.dɚˌθɑl/
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For an account of the Neanderthal man and other remains mentioned, see Quatrefages, Human Species, chap.
These are excellently described by their discoverer ("La race humaine de Neanderthal ou de Canstatt en Belgique".
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Nevertheless, it must be admitted that some skulls of very high antiquity, such as the famous one of Neanderthal, are well developed and capacious.
Nothing died but that which stood in the pathway of man's development,--the monstrous animals, the Neanderthal races, the half-human creatures intermediate between man and the brute.
I think that, if ever there was an ogre in the world, he must have been very like a certain person who lived, or was buried, in a cave in the Neanderthal, between Elberfeld and Dusseldorf, on the Lower Rhine.