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Dryopithecus

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(Gr. 6pus, oak, 71-1.8'9xos, ape, "the ape of the oak-woods"), the name of an extinct ape or monkey from Miocene deposits of France, believed to be allied to the baboons, but perhaps with some affinity to the higher apes.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Dryopithecus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​d/dryopithecus.html. 1910.
 
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