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AUSTRALOPITHECUS

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Meaning:

Extinct genus of African hominid

Synonyms:

Australopithecus; genus Australopithecus

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Australopithecus" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Australopithecus"):

australopithecine (any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago)

Australopithecus afarensis (fossils found in Ethiopia; from 3.5 to 4 million years ago)

Lucy (incomplete skeleton of female found in eastern Ethiopia in 1974)

Australopithecus africanus (gracile hominid of southern Africa; from about 3 million years ago)

Australopithecus boisei (large-toothed hominid of eastern Africa; from 1 to 2 million years ago)

Australopithecus robustus (large-toothed hominid of southern Africa; from 1.5 to 2 million years ago; formerly Paranthropus)

Holonyms ("Australopithecus" is a member of...):

family Hominidae; Hominidae (modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man)

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