Australopithecus africanus

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(af′ri kä′nəs, -kan′əs)


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Australopith′ecus af•ri•ca′nus  (af′ri kä′nəs, -kan′əs),USA pronunciation 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of gracile hominid, formerly known as Plesianthropus transvaalensis, that lived in southern Africa about three million years ago.
  2. Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. See illus. under hominid. 
  • Neo-Latin; see African
  • 1925


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