Troglodyte

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes. In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the "mad lake." Holland.

2. An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

3. The wren.