Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Troglodyte

Troglodyte , noun

[Latin troglodytae, pl., Greek {not transcribed} one who creeps into holes; {not transcribed} a hole, cavern (from {not transcribed} to gnaw) + {not transcribed} enter: compare French troglodyte.]

1.
(Ethnology) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller, or cave man. 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.
(Zoology) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.
3.
(Zoology) The wren.