australopithecine
aust·ra·lo·pithecine
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of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus
noun
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Originally in reference to a now-obsolete subfamily Australopithecinae, formed in New Latin, from Latin austrālis (“southern”) + Ancient Greek πίθηκος (píthēkos, “ape”).
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