Category:Troglodyte

Trog"lo*dyte, n. Etym: [l. troglodytae, pl., Gr. troglodyte.]

1. (ethnol.)

Defn: one of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of Constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races Of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it Beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

2. (zoöl.)

Defn: an anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

3. (zoöl.)

Defn: the wren.