Australopithecus

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ô strā′lō pith′i kəs, -pə thē′kəs, ô′strə-)


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Aus•tra•lo•pith•e•cus  (ô strā′lō pith′i kəs, -pə thē′kəs, ô′strə-),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago. Cf. australopithecine.
  • Greek píthēkos ape
  • Neo-Latin (1905), equivalent. to austral(is) austral + -o- -o- + pithēcus

'Australopithecus' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Australopithecus afarensis - Australopithecus africanus - Australopithecus boisei - Australopithecus robustus - Hadar - Lucy - Swartkrans ape-man - Zinjanthropus - ape-man - australopithecine - hominid - missing link - paranthropus - zinjanthropus

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