paranthropus in American English
(pəˈrænθrəpəs, ˌpærənˈθrou-)
nounWord forms: plural (for 1) -puses1. (sometimes cap) a member of the former genus Paranthropus
2. (cap., italics) a former genus of fossil hominids whose members have now been assigned to the proposed species Australopithecus robustus
Word origin
[‹ NL (1938) ‹ Gk
par- par- (in the sense “near”) +
ánthrōpos man
]