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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Australopith′ecus boi•sei′ (boi sā′),USA pronunciation - Physical Anthropologyan extinct species of very rugged, large-toothed bipedal hominid, formerly known as Zinjanthropus boisei, that lived in eastern Africa one to two million years ago.
- Physical Anthropologya fossil belonging to this species. See illus. under hominid.
- Neo-Latin; boisei after Charles Boise, a benefactor of Latin.south, southern.B. Leakey, who described and named the original finds in 1959
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