cro-magnon
/kroh-mag-nuhn, -non, -man-yuhn/US // kroʊˈmæg nən, -nɒn, -ˈmæn yən //
克鲁玛努人,克鲁马农人,克鲁马努人,克罗马农人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an Upper Paleolithic population of humans, regarded as the prototype of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. Skeletal remains found in an Aurignacian cave in southern France indicate that the Cro-Magnon had long heads, broad faces, and sunken eyes, and reached a height of approximately 5 feet 9 inches.
- : a member of the Cro-Magnon population.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Even the average man will shorten his life span like a Cro-Magnon.
Onward raced the Cro-Magnard, his thoughts filled with the quest he had undertaken alone.
Uda, the moon, had not yet risen above the trees when the Cro-Magnon youth plunged into the wilderness of growing things.
Crouching under the arc of the hurtling body, the Cro-Magnard drove his long knife to the hilt in the white-furred belly.
For several minutes the ruler of Sephar sat lost in thought, his eyes on the giant Cro-Magnon.
Cro-Magnon man had always been a reindeer hunter, accustomed and well adapted to the life and conditions of tundra or steppe.
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