ˌafrə̇ˈkan(t)thrəpəs, -ˌkanˈthrōpəs noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Africa + -anthropus (as in Pithecanthropus )
in some classifications : a genus of primitive hominids from the Upper Pleistocene of Africa known from partial reconstruction of several shattered skulls found near Lake Eyasi in Tanzania, considered in some respects intermediate between Neanderthal man and pithecanthropus, and by some held congeneric with Florisbad man and Rhodesian man