Troglodyte Explained
A troglodyte is a human cave dweller, from the Greek 'hole, mouse-hole' and 'go in, dive in'.
Troglodyte and derived forms may also refer to:
Historiography
- Troglodytae or Troglodyti, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast
Science
- Homo troglodytes, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature
- Pan troglodytes, the common chimpanzee
- Troglodytes (bird), a genus of small bird
- Troglodytes gorilla, an archaic synonym of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)
Arts and fiction
Music
Other media
- Caveman, a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved
- Troglodyte, a 2009 film also known as Sea Beast
- Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons), a race of humanoid monsters in the game Dungeons & Dragons
- Troglodistes, a group of mole-men who live in the sewers of Paris in the film Delicatessen
- Troglodites, a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
- Troglodytes, Max Stones' lavamen workers who mine gold, in a segment from Sealab 2021
- Troglodytes, a 2010 book by Ed Lynskey
- Troglodytes, a fictional group of cave dwelling cannibals in the 2015 movie Bone Tomahawk
- Morlocks, a fictional species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine
See also