Meanings
proper nounMorwood (plural Morwoods)
plural Morwoods
- A surname.
Discoverer Mike Morwood proposed that it was a shrunken Homo erectus, the same species that eventually evolved to become us; others suggested the Hobbits were descended from smaller, more primitive early humans such as Homo habilis or Australopithecus.
2016 June 9, James Griffiths, “This is how the ‘Hobbits’ of Indonesia became so small”, in CNN, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2021
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Morwood. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morwood
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“Morwood.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morwood. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Morwood,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Morwood.
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