Neanderthal : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Neanderthal	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Neanderthal
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
neanderthal adj ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance; "was boorish and insensitive"; "the loutish manners of a bully"; "her stupid oafish husband"; "aristocratic contempt for the swinish multitude" Synonym(s): boorish, loutish, neanderthal, neandertal, oafish, swinish relating to or belonging to or resembling Neanderthal man; "Neanderthal skull" Synonym(s): Neanderthal, Neanderthalian, Neandertal n extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia Synonym(s): Neandertal man, Neanderthal man, Neandertal, Neanderthal, Homo sapiens neanderthalensis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Neanderthal \Nean"derthal`\, a. (Anthropol.) Of, pertaining to, or named from, the Neanderthal, a valley in the Rhine Province, in which were found parts of a skeleton of an early type of man. The skull is characterized by extreme dolichocephaly, flat, retreating forehead, with closed frontal sutures, and enormous superciliary ridges. The cranial capacity is estimated at about 1,220 cubic centimeters, being about midway between that of the {Pithecanthropus} and modern man. Hence, designating the