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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Australopith′ecus a•far•en′sis (ə fä ren′sis),USA pronunciation - Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of early hominid whose fossil remains were discovered in Ethiopia and have been dated at between 3.5 and 4 million years of age.
- Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. Cf. Lucy. See illus. under hominid.
- Neo-Latin; after the Afar region of Ethiopia, where Lucy was found; see Afar, -ensis
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