/peuh ran"threuh peuhs, par'euhn throh"-/ , n. , pl. paranthropuses for 1.
1. ( sometimes cap. ) a member of the former genus Paranthropus.
2. ( cap., italics ) a former genus of fossil hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Australopithecus robustus.
[ par- PAR- (in the sense "near") + ánthropos man ]