1. a supposedly very early hominid erroneously reconstructed in the early 1900s from what was later determined to be human skull fragments and an orangutan lower jaw planted by a hoaxer
Piltdown 片语
片语
Piltdown forgery皮尔丹伪物
Piltdown-Mensch皮尔当人
Piltdown hoaxa supposedly primitive man later proven to be a hoax
同义词:
Piltdown man
Piltdown Man皮尔丹人(1921 年在英国皮尔当发现的头盖骨,后经鑒定是伪造物)
Piltdown 例句
英汉例句
The Piltdown man is a famous hoax in which pieces of a skull and jawbone found in 1912 were believed to be the fossilized remains of an early form of human being.