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australopithecine Definition


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australopithecine
noun
    1. Any of several kinds of extinct anthropoid apes whose fossil remains were first discovered in southern Africa in the 1920s, some of which are believed to be over 4.5 million years old.
adj
    1. Belonging, relating or referring to this kind of ape.
Etymology: 1920s: from Latin australis southern + Greek pithekos ape.



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