单词 | prehistoric man |
释义 | > as lemmasprehistoric man prehistoric man n. the human race as it existed before written historical accounts, personified as an individual; (more generally) the human race as it existed a very long time ago. ΚΠ 1863 Anthropol. Rev. 1 137 Wilson's Prehistoric Man. 1931 H. S. Williams Bk. Marvels 101 In studying the records of prehistoric man, the ‘rough stone’ age is found to antedate the ‘smooth stone’ age. 2001 R. W. Cahn Coming of Materials Sci. ix. 367 When prehistoric man made and fired clay pots, he relied..upon the phenomenon of sintering to convert a loosely cohering array of clay powder particles steeped in water into a firmly cohering body. < as lemmas |
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