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noun

Troglodyte n.

(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.""

(Zool.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

(Zool.) The wren.

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Etymology of 'Troglodyte'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Troglodyte" Quotes from Famous Books

... of decency that is due to any woman. But the veneer of civilisation is very thin. From beneath it, the potential troglodyte, that lurks in us all, is ready enough to erupt. Ready and eager then, he was visible in Lennox' menacing eyes, manifest ...

— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... relieved from the preoccupation of an immediate start. Although we were in the very deepest of known depths, there was something not unpleasant about it. And, besides, we were beginning to get accustomed to this troglodyte [l] life. I no longer thought of sun, moon, and stars, trees, houses, and towns, nor of any of those terrestrial superfluities which are necessaries of men who live upon the earth's surface. Being fossils, we looked upon all those ...

— A Journey to the Interior of the Earth • Jules Verne

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