Africanthropus

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

noun

1. (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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Africanthropus¹

First recorded in 1935–40; from New Latin, equivalent to Āfric(a) “Africa” + Greek ánthrōpos “human being”