What is the meaning of Troglodyte?

  • (n.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
  • (n.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
  • (n.) The wren.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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