"prehuman" meaning in All languages combined

See prehuman on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

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  1. Preceding the advent of modern humanity, Homo sapiens. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antehuman Hypernyms: nonhuman Related terms: inhuman, unhuman Coordinate_terms: human Translations (Translations): vormenschlich (German), prähuman (German), preumano (Italian)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: infrahuman, subhuman

Noun [English]

Forms: prehumans [plural]
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  1. One of the human-like creatures that existed before Homo sapiens. Hypernyms: nonhuman Coordinate_terms: human
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Related terms: infrahuman, subhuman

Inflected forms

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