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Zinjanthropus

(zin jan′t̸hrə pəs)

noun

a type of early hominid (Australopithecus boisei) who lived about 1,500,000 years ago in the Lower Pleistocene

Origin: ModL < Ar Zinj, people of East Africa + Gr anthrōpos, man: see anthropo-

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noun

An extinct primate postulated from bones found in Tanzania in 1959 and originally designated Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis S.B. Leakey. It was later shown to be an australopithecine and renamed Australopithecus boisei.

Origin:

Origin: New Latin Zinjanthrōpus, former genus name

Origin: : Arabic zinj, zanj, an African (probably from shortening of zanjabār, Zanzibar)

Origin: + Greek anthrōpos, man

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