cro-magnon

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: Cro-Mag=non

CIDE DICTIONARY

cro-magnon, prop. n. 

•  a race of human-like hominids of the Upper Paleolithic in Europe, considered of the same species as modern humans (Homo sapiens). Their skeletal remains were found mostly in southern France.  [WordNet 1.5]
•  a member of the Cro-Magnon race.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cro-magnon, adj. Anthropol. of a tall broad-faced European race of late palaeolithic times.

Etymology

name of a hill in the Dordogne, France, where remains were found in 1868