Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An extinct hominin known from fossil remains of the Pleistocene Epoch found in China, originally called Sinanthropus but now classified as Homo erectus.
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- noun fossils found near Beijing, China; they were lost during World War II
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Peking, (Beijing), China.]
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