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English to English adjective
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relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man |  | Example: Neanderthal skull
source: wordnet30
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Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the Pithecanthropus and modern man. Hence, designating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | | Example: was boorish and insensitive
the loutish manners of a bully
her stupid oafish husband
aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude
source: wordnet30 noun
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extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia | | source: wordnet30
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