Australopithecus boisei

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(boi sā′)


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Australopith′ecus boi•sei′  (boi sā′),USA pronunciation 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of very rugged, large-toothed bipedal hominid, formerly known as Zinjanthropus boisei, that lived in eastern Africa one to two million years ago.
  2. Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. See illus. under hominid. 
  • Neo-Latin; boisei after Charles Boise, a benefactor of Latin.south, southern.B. Leakey, who described and named the original finds in 1959

'Australopithecus boisei' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Zinjanthropus - zinjanthropus

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