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Meganthropus

[ muh-gan-thruh-puhs, meg-an-throh-puhs ]

noun

  1. a proposed genus of extinct, late lower Pleistocene primates based on two large lower jaws found in Java, and believed to be either Australopithecine or human.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Meganthropus1

< New Latin (1942) < Greek még ( as ) large ( mega- ) + ánthrōpos man

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