Troglodyte

• A member of a primitive race or tribe of cave-dwellers, a caveman
  Caveman
  
  A caveman is a popular stock character based upon stereotyped concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans or homininans may have looked and behaved....
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• A person who lives in seclusion, a hermit
  Hermit
  
  A hermit is a person who lives to some greater or lesser degree in solitude and/or isolation from society.In Christianity the term was originally applied to a Christian who lives the eremitic life out of a religious conviction, namely the Catholic spirituality#Desert spirituality of the Old Testament ....
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• One of a group of people who built homes into the faces of cliffs (Cliff-dwelling
  Cliff-dwelling
  
  Cliff dwelling is the general Archaeology term for the habitations of prehistorical peoples, formed by utilizing niches or caves in high cliffs, with more or less excavation or with additions in the way of masonry....
  ), connected by underground passageways, such as in France or Tunisia.

• Troglodytae
  Troglodytae
  
  The Troglodytae or Troglodyti , were a people mentioned in various locations by many ancient Greek and Roman geographers and historians including Agatharcides, Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Pliny, Tacitus, Josephus, etc....
  , an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast
• Troglodites, a fictional Arabian tribe, supposedly descending from the ancient Troglodytae, described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
  Persian Letters
  
  Persian Letters is a satire work, by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, recounting the experiences of two Persian noblemen, Usbek and Rica, who are traveling through France....
  

• Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons)
  Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons)
  
  In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the troglodyte is a fictional race of primitive reptilian Humanoid ....
  , a fictional race of humanoid monsters which are also featured in various online multiplayer games such as EverQuest
  EverQuest
  
  EverQuest, often called EQ, is a 3D fantasy fiction-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game that was released on 16 March 1999....
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• A fictional underground society
  Resistance movement
  
  A resistance movement is a group or collection of individual groups, dedicated to fighting an invader in an military occupation country or the government of a sovereign nation through either the use of physical force, or nonviolence....
   in the movie Delicatessen
  Delicatessen (film)
  
  Delicatessen is a France black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon. It is set in a post-apocalyptic apartment building in a France of an ambiguous time period....
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• A fictional tribe of cavedwellers, the Kretevs, living in an escarpment in the peninsula of Hav, in the novel Hav by Jan Morris
  Jan Morris
  
  Jan Morris Order of the British Empire is a British historian, author and travel writer. Morris was educated at Lancing College, West Sussex, and Christ Church, Oxford, but is Wales by heritage and adoption....
  

• Troglodytes (wren)
  Troglodytes (wren)
  
  Troglodytesis a genus of small passerine birds in the wren family.These wrens are around 11 or 12 cm long. They are typically streaked brown above and somewhat paler below, with short rounded wings, strong legs and a cocked tail....
  , a genus of small bird.
• The Common Chimpanzee
  Common Chimpanzee
  
  The Common Chimpanzee , also known as the Robust Chimpanzee, is a Hominidae. The name troglodytes, Greek for 'cave-dweller', was coined by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in his Handbuch der Naturgeschichte published in 1779....
  , Pan troglodytes.

See also

• Troglobite
  Troglobite
  
  A troglobite is an animal that lives entirely in the dark parts of caves. Such creatures have become specifically adapted for life in total darkness and over time they have evolved to develop improved senses of smell, taste and vibration detection, while losing anatomical features that are superfluous without light, such as functioning eyes...
  , a cave animal