Zin·jan·thro·pus 
(zĭn-jănthrə-pəs, zĭn′jăn-thrōpəs)
(zĭn-jănthrə-pəs, zĭn′jăn-thrōpəs)n.
An extinct hominin postulated from a skull found in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, in 1959 and originally designated Zinjanthropus boisei by Louis S.B. Leakey. It was later renamed Paranthropus boisei.
[New Latin Zinjanthrōpus, former genus name : Arabic zinj, zanj, the peoples of East Africa, black Africans + Greek anthrōpos, human being.]