Australopithecus robustus

US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(rō bus′təs)


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Australopith′ecus ro•bus′tus  (rō bus′təs),USA pronunciation 
  1. Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of large-toothed bipedal hominid that lived in southern Africa c1.5–2 million years ago: formerly classified as the genus Paranthropus.
  2. Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. See illus. under hominid. 
  • Neo-Latin; see robust

'Australopithecus robustus' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Swartkrans ape-man - paranthropus

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