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Hypothetical creature   /hˌaɪpəθˈɛtəkəl krˈitʃər/   Listen
Hypothetical creature

noun
1.
A creature that has not been observed but is hypothesized to exist.





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"Hypothetical creature" Quotes from Famous Books



... clear that the creature whose part skeleton had been found by Dr. Dubois was of a type intermediate between the lowest existing man and the highest existing man-apes. It was, in short, the actual prototype of that hypothetical creature which Haeckel, in his genealogical tree, had christened pithecanthropus, the ape-man. As such it was christened ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams


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