/aw stray'loh pith"i keuhs, -peuh thee"keuhs, aw'streuh-/ , n.
an extinct genus of small-brained,large-toothed bipedal hominids that lived in Africa between one and four million years ago. Cf. australopithecine .
[ austral ( is ) AUSTRAL + -o- -O- + pithecus píthekos ape ]