Translingual

Gigantopithecus giganteus, replica of a fossil jawbone

Proper noun

Gigantopithecus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hominidae – an ape that existed from roughly one million years to as recently as three-hundred thousand years ago, in what is now China, India, and Vietnam.

Hyponyms

• (genus): Gigantopithecus bilaspurensis, Gigantopithecus blacki, Gigantopithecus giganteus (extinct species)