# Troglodyte

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Look up ***[troglodyte](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troglodyte)*** in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A **troglodyte** is a human [cave dweller](/source/Cave_dweller), from the Greek *trṓglē* 'hole, mouse-hole' and *dúō* 'go in, dive in'.

**Troglodyte** and derived forms may also refer to:

## Historiography

- *[Troglodytae](/source/Troglodytae)* or *Troglodyti*, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast

## Science

- *[Homo troglodytes](/source/Homo_troglodytes)*, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature

- *Pan troglodytes*, the [common chimpanzee](/source/Common_chimpanzee)

- [*Troglodytes* (bird)](/source/Troglodytes_(bird)), a genus of small bird

- *Troglodytes gorilla*, an archaic synonym of the [western gorilla](/source/Western_gorilla) (*Gorilla gorilla*)

## Arts and fiction

### Music

- [Troglodyte (band)](/source/Troglodyte_(band)), a metal band from Kansas City

- "[Troglodyte (Cave Man)](/source/Troglodyte_(Cave_Man))", a funk song by the Jimmy Castor Bunch on their 1972 album *It's Just Begun*

- The Troglodytes, a British band who became known as [The Troggs](/source/The_Troggs)

- "The Troglodyte Wins", a song by American rapper and producer Busdriver on his 2007 studio album *[RoadKillOvercoat](/source/RoadKillOvercoat)*

- "Troglodyte", a song by Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys on their 2022 album *[Cave World](/source/Cave_World)*

### Other media

- [Caveman](/source/Caveman), a stock character based upon widespread concepts of the way in which early prehistoric humans may have looked and behaved

- *Troglodyte*, a 2009 film also known as *[Sea Beast](/source/Sea_Beast)*

- [Troglodyte (Dungeons & Dragons)](/source/Troglodyte_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)), a race of humanoid monsters in the game *Dungeons & Dragons*

- Troglodistes, a group of mole-men who live in the sewers of Paris in the film *[Delicatessen](/source/Delicatessen_(1991_film))*

- *Troglodites*, a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's *[Persian Letters](/source/Persian_Letters)*

- Troglodytes, Max Stones' lavamen workers who mine gold, in a segment from *[Sealab 2021](/source/Sealab_2021)*

- *Troglodytes*, a 2010 book by [Ed Lynskey](/source/Ed_Lynskey)

- Troglodytes, a fictional group of cave dwelling cannibals in the 2015 movie *[Bone Tomahawk](/source/Bone_Tomahawk)*

- [Morlocks](/source/Morlocks), a fictional species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, *The Time Machine*

## See also

- [Trog (disambiguation)](/source/Trog_(disambiguation))

- [Troglobite](/source/Troglobite), a cave animal

- [Trilobite](/source/Trilobite), a group of extinct marine arthropods

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