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Boskopoid

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A member of a suggested human species thought to be typified by the Boskop Man fossil of the Middle Stone Age (Late Pleistocene) discovered in 1913 in South Africa.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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adjective

Meaning 2

belonging or relating to or resembling Boskop man

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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History

Etymology

From Boskop + -oid.