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Troglodyte   Listen
noun
Troglodyte  n.  
1.
(Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, or cave man. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. "In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake.""
2.
(Zool.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
3.
(Zool.) The wren.





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"Troglodyte" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor were travelling towards the cliffs which encircle the sombre valley of Biban el Moluk, the royal necropolis of ancient Thebes, indulging in the conversation of which we have related a part, when, rising like a Troglodyte from the black mouth of an empty sepulchre—the ordinary habitation of the fellahs—another person, dressed in somewhat theatrical fashion, abruptly entered on the scene, stood before the travellers, and saluted them with the graceful salute ...
— The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 - The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt • Theophile Gautier


Words linked to "Troglodyte" :   hermit, primitive person, cave dweller, lone wolf, cave man, St. John the Baptist, primitive, lone hand, caveman, John the Baptist


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