missing link

1. 1.

   hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings

   Synonymsape-man

   Broaderprimitive

Questions about missing link

What does missing link mean?

missing link means "hypothetical organism formerly thought to be intermediate between apes and human beings".

What is another word for missing link?

Close synonyms include ape-man. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is missing link a common word?

missing link is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.