AUSTRALOPITHECUS ROBUSTUS


Meaning of AUSTRALOPITHECUS ROBUSTUS in English

/roh bus"teuhs/

1. an extinct species of large-toothed bipedal hominid that lived in southern Africa c1.5-2 million years ago: formerly classified as the genus Paranthropus.

2. a fossil belonging to this species. See illus. under hominid .

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