ˈflōrə̇sˌbät-, -bad- noun
Usage: usually capitalized F
Etymology: from Florisbad, village near Bloemfontein, Union of So. Africa
: a primitive So. African man ( Homo helmei or Africanthropus helmei syn. Africanthropus florisbadensis ) that resembles Rhodesian man, is sometimes regarded as ancestral to certain living African races, and is based on a single skull of possibly mid-Pleistocene age, large and thick-boned, with prominent brow ridge, prognathous jaw, and flattened dorsal cranium which was found associated with artifacts suggesting those of the European Acheulean