Troglodyte

The term troglodyte can refer to the following:

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• In archaeology, troglodyte can mean a member of a primitive tribe of cave-dwelling people (from the Greek Troglodytai, from trogle, "a hole" and dyein, "to enter").
• Derived from that term, troglodytes are cave-dwelling humanoid monsters in fantasy games such as Dungeons & Dragons or Heroes of Might and Magic (where they look like lizards) and will also appear in related fiction.
• More recently Troglodyte is used to describe a technophobic person; i.e. someone who prefers to hide from the realities of modern life.
• Troglodyte may also be an elitist pejorative term to refer to non-elites, or those viewed as being of subordinate or inferior culture and belief.
• Troglodytes, a genus of wrens in the family Troglodytidae.
• Troglodytes, the original genus for the gorilla, now considered invalid.