Definition of peking man in English English dictionary
An early member of an extinct species of humans, considered a subspecies of Homo erectus and known from fossil remains of the Pleistocene Epoch found in China. Also called sinanthropus
{i} fossils remains of an extinct form of human (Pithecanthropus) which were found near Peking (China) in the late 1930s and early 1940s (and afterwards wer lost during WWII); primitive man found near Peking
fossils found near Beijing, China; they were lost during World War II a primitive man found near Beijing; resembles Java man