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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

... certain resemblance to the city of Og. Originally it was all underground, but in process of time it effervesced, bubbled out of its holes, and is now but half troglodyte. The heights that form the Northern declivity of the valley of the Loir come to an abrupt end here, and have been sawn through by a small stream creating a natural fosse, isolating the hill of Troo that is attached to the plateau only on the ...

— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

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