Troglodyte

A troglodyte is a human cave dweller, from the Greek trogle 'hole, mouse-hole' and dyein 'go in, dive in'.

Troglodyte and derived forms may also refer to:

Historiography

Troglodytae or Troglodyti, an ancient group of people from the African Red Sea coast

Homo troglodytes, an invalid taxon coined by Carl Linnaeus to refer to a legendary creature
Pan troglodytes, the common chimpanzee
Troglodytes (bird), a genus of small bird
Troglodytes gorilla, an archaic synonym of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla)

Troglodyte (band), a metal band from Kansas City
"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
"The Troglodyte Wins", a song by American rapper and producer Busdriver on his 2007 studio album RoadKillOvercoat
"Troglodyte", a song by Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys on their 2022 album Cave World

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
Troglodyte (Dungeons & 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
Troglodites, a fictional tribe described in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
Troglodytes, Max Stones' lavamen workers who mine gold, in a segment from Sealab 2021
Troglodytes, a 2010 book by Ed Lynskey
Troglodytes, a fictional group of cave dwelling cannibals in the 2015 movie Bone Tomahawk
Morlocks, a fictional species created by H. G. Wells for his 1895 novel, The Time Machine