Africanthropus
[ af-ri-kan-thruh-puhs, -kan-throh-puhs ]
noun
(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.
Origin of Africanthropus
1First recorded in 1935–40; from New Latin, equivalent to Āfric(a) “Africa” + Greek ánthrōpos “human being”
Words Nearby Africanthropus
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