Any of several extinct humanlike primates of the genus Australopithecus, known chiefly from Pleistocene fossil remains found in southern and eastern Africa.
ADJECTIVE:
Of, relating to, or characteristic of these extinct humanlike primates.
ETYMOLOGY:
From New Latin Australopithcus, genus name : Latin austrlis, southern; see austral1 + pithcus, ape (from Greek pithkos).
ô-str
l
-p
th
n
n
