'missing link' definitions:
Definition of 'missing link'
(from WordNet)
noun
Hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings [syn: missing link, ape- man]
Synonyms of 'missing link'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboriginal,
- aborigine,
- ancient,
- antediluvian,
- anthropoid,
- ape-man,
- arrearage,
- autochthon,
- break,
- Bronze Age man,
- bushman,
- cave dweller,
- caveman,
- defalcation,
- defect,
- deficiency,
- deficit,
- discontinuity,
- fossil man,
- gap,
- hiatus,
- hominid,
- Hominidae,
- humanoid,
- interval,
- Iron Age man,
- lack,
- lacuna,
- man of old,
- need,
- omission,
- outage,
- preadamite,
- prehistoric man,
- prehuman,
- primate,
- primitive,
- protohuman,
- shortage,
- Stone Age man,
- troglodyte,
- ullage,
- want,
- wantage