australopithecine

17 letters · noun · scores 5,800 in SpellHuntr

noun

any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago

adjective

of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus

Australopithecine in a sentence

It is as if there were enshrined in these legends a racial memory of the Australopithicines who came close but never did make it to full humanity.

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