AFRICANTHROPUS Definition & Meaning

Africanthropus

[ af-ri-kan-thruh-puhs, -kan-throh-puhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

(no longer in technical use) a genus of hominins of eastern Africa, assumed from a number of now lost skull fragments to have been a form of archaic Homo.

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First recorded in 1935–40; from New Latin, equivalent to Ā�ڰ��(��) “Africa” + Greek á�Գٳ��ō��ǲ� “human being”

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