Meanings (ES + gloss)
cavernícola • troglodita
A member of a supposed prehistoric race that lived in caves or holes, a caveman.
troglodita
Anything that lives underground.
Inhabited as early as the Gallo-Roman era, the caves of the troglodytes are slighted in guidebooks, naturally overshadowed by the chateaus of the kings.
The cave was populated by albino scorpions, blind salamanders, and other troglodytes.
troglodita
A reclusive, reactionary or out-of-date person, especially if brutish.
Blair brought out the febrile intensity of Stanhope, wiring himself into his ever more circumscribed troglodyte world, speculating moodily on the worm that went down when it though…
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