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Meaning of "australopithecine" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUSTRALOPITHECINE

From New Latin Australopithecus, from Latin austrālis southern, austral1 + Greek pithēkos ape.
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PRONUNCIATION OF AUSTRALOPITHECINE

australopithecine  [ˌɒstrələʊˈpɪθɪˌsiːn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUSTRALOPITHECINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Australopithecine can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES AUSTRALOPITHECINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

australopithecine

Australopithecine

The term australopithecine refers generally to any species in the related genera of Australopithecus and Paranthropus. It may also include members of Kenyanthropus, Ardipithecus, and Praeanthropus. The term comes from a former classification as members of a distinct subfamily, the Australopithecinae. They are now classified by some within the Australopithecina subtribe of the Hominini tribe. Members of Australopithecus are sometimes referred to as the "gracile australopithecines", while Paranthropus are called the "robust australopithecines". The australopithecines occurred in the Plio-Pleistocene era, and were bipedal and dentally similar to humans, but with a brain size not much larger than that of modern apes, with lesser encephalization than in the genus Homo. Humans may have descended from australopithecine ancestors, while the genus Ardipithecus is a possible ancestor of the australopithecines.

Definition of australopithecine in the English dictionary

The definition of australopithecine in the dictionary is of or relating to any of these primates.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AUSTRALOPITHECINE


adenosine
æˈdɛnəˌsiːn
Anthropocene
ænˈθrɒpəˌsiːn
colchicine
ˈkɒltʃɪˌsiːn
cytisine
ˈsɪtɪˌsiːn
demoscene
ˈdɛməʊˌsiːn
Eocene
ˈiːəʊˌsiːn
epicene
ˈɛpɪˌsiːn
ferrocene
ˈfɛrəʊˌsiːn
guanosine
ˈɡwɑːnəˌsiːn
Holocene
ˈhɒləˌsiːn
hyoscine
ˈhaɪəˌsiːn
kerosene
ˈkɛrəˌsiːn
metallocene
mɪˈtæləʊˌsiːn
Miocene
ˈmaɪəˌsiːn
Oligocene
ˈɒlɪɡəʊˌsiːn
paleocene
ˈpælɪəʊˌsiːn
Plasticine
ˈplæstɪˌsiːn
Pleistocene
ˈplaɪstəˌsiːn
Pliocene
ˈplaɪəʊˌsiːn
tyrosine
ˈtaɪrəˌsiːn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUSTRALOPITHECINE

australis
australite
Australoid
Australorp
Austrasia
Austria
Austria-Hungary
Austrian
Austrian blind
Austrian pine
austringer
Austro-Asiatic
Austro-Hungarian
Austronesia
Austronesian
ausubo
AUT
autacoid
autarch
autarchic

WORDS THAT END LIKE AUSTRALOPITHECINE

alternative medicine
Chinese medicine
dryopithecine
galeopithecine
glycine
herbal medicine
internal medicine
internecine
medicine
nuclear medicine
physical medicine
piscine
porcine
preventive medicine
Racine
ramapithecine
sports medicine
telecine
vaccine
veterinary medicine

Synonyms and antonyms of australopithecine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «australopithecine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUSTRALOPITHECINE

Find out the translation of australopithecine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of australopithecine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «australopithecine» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

南方古猿
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

australopitecino
570 millions of speakers

English

australopithecine
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

australopithecine
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

australopithecine
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

австралопитеков
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

australopithecine
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

australopithecine
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

australopithèque
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Australopithecine
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Australopithecinen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ピテクス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

australopithecine
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Australopithecine
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

australopithecine
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அதாவது australopithecine
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑस्ट्रेलोपिथेक्लीन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Australopitosen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

australopithecine
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

australopitek
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

австралопітеків
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

australopithecine
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

australopithecine
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

australopithecine
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

australopithecine
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

australopithecine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of australopithecine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUSTRALOPITHECINE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUSTRALOPITHECINE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about australopithecine

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUSTRALOPITHECINE»

Discover the use of australopithecine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to australopithecine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Evolutionary History of the "Robust" Australopithecines
Both probably inhabited caves, and either could have produced the pattern of " robust" australopithecine skeletal part representation in Member 1, where limb bones seem to have been crunched beyond recognition and only skulls were left  ...
Frederick E. Grine, 2007
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Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge
Though the teeth were large, this australopithecine possessed an arched dental arcade and a ratio between front and back teeth more like humans and South African gracile australopithecines than like robust groups. For this reason, some ...
William Haviland, Dana Walrath, Harald Prins, 2013
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Erect Men, Undulating Women: The Visual Imagery of Gender, ...
These conventions can be reversed to emphasize primitiveness for those forms considered non-ancestral. This Homocentric focus is very apparent as we examine the Matternes australopithecine illustrations across time; they go through a ...
Melanie Wiber, 1997
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The Origin and Evolution of Humans and Humanness
POST-AUSTRALOPITHECINE. PERIOD. OF. HUMAN. EVOLUTION. The fossil record is clear in recording the major events of human evolution subsequent to those of the earliest australopithecines. At least two distinct australopithe- cine ...
D. Tab Rasmussen, University of California, Los Angeles. IGPP Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life, 1993
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The Hunters Or the Hunted?: An Introduction to African Cave ...
The myth of the bone-accumulating hyena. Am. Anthrop. 58 (1): 40-62. . 1956ft. Cultural status of the South African man- apes. Smithsonian Report, n. 4240, pp. 317-38. . 1957a. The Makapansgat australopithecine osteo- dontokeratic culture.
American Bar Foundation, Samuel J. Brakel, Ronald S. Rock, 1971
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Born in Africa: The Quest for the Origins of Human Life
With increasing excitement, excavations began. The 'Black Skull', as it came to be known because of its dark patina, caused the family tree to be redrawn once more. It belonged to a robust australopithecine, a hominid similar to Olduvai's ...
Martin Meredith, 2011
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Anthropology: The Human Challenge
Though the teeth were large, this australopithecine possessed an arched dental arcade and a ratio between front and back teeth more like humans and South African gracile australopithecines than like robust groups. For this reason, some ...
William Haviland, Harald Prins, Dana Walrath, 2013
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An Introduction to Human Evolutionary Anatomy
australopithecine. and. paranthropine. pelvis. as. a. whole. Although these pelves look more like the pelves of modern humans than like the pelves of living apes, they are characterized by a unique morphology that has no exact parallel among  ...
Leslie Aiello, Christopher Dean, 1990
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Ethiopia
was on its morning jog) hominids had evolved much earlier than previously assumed, but it also created a likely candidate for the common ancestry of later australopithecine species and the human chain of evolution. As more A. afarensis ...
Philip Briggs, 2012
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A New and Modern Holy Bible with the Intelligent Design of ...
Australopithecine walked upright. The teeth resemble our teeth. The earliest members of this specie lived about 4.4 million years ago. Interestingly, many australopithecine skulls have been found. Unfortunately, because of jaw, teeth, brain ...
George D. Shollenberger, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUSTRALOPITHECINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term australopithecine is used in the context of the following news items.
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George Jonas: Discrimination is discrimination, whatever you call it
Yes, Virginia, we used to exclude women as a group but surely it couldn't escape even a brighter kind of australopithecine primate, let alone ... «National Post, Jul 15»
2
Human evolution: The cradle of humankind revisited
But a way must be found to make the specimens widely accessible. In situ interpretation of australopithecine remains should present a uniquely ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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DeSilva to teach at Dartmouth College
His particular anatomical expertise–the evolution of the human foot and ankle–has contributed to the on-going debate of Australopithecine ... «spectator.southcoasttoday, Jun 15»
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For Adults, Coloring Invites Creativity And Brings Comfort
Side-by-side skeletal comparisons of the australopithecine "Lucy" and a modern chimpanzee in one case, and robust (large-boned, ... «Texas Public Radio, Jun 15»
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Declaring The Discovery Of A New Species Can Get Tricky
s naming of the new australopithecine species leads them to emphasize in their Nature article the "incontrovertible evidence" showing multiple ... «WCQS, Jun 15»
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THE INSIDER: Chimps would braai — if they could make a fire
... cooking accelerated human evolution. Cooked food is easier to digest, spurring the growth of large brains in our australopithecine ancestors. «BDlive, Jun 15»
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Chimps have mental skills to cook: Study
Cooked food is easier to digest, spurring the growth of large brains in our australopithecine ancestors, Harvard's Richard Wrangham proposed ... «Sarnia Observer, Jun 15»
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New hominin discovery suggests multiple human ancestors lived …
The first Australopithecine fossil—a child's skull found in a lime quarry by workers in Taung, South Africa—was discovered in 1924 and named ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jun 15»
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A New Species is named following the Discovery of a 3-Million-Year …
But a new discovery may rewrite our origins, for it seems Lucy was not the only type of Australopithecine roaming the African plains so long ago ... «Science Times, May 15»
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Newly Discovered Hominid Species Found In Ethiopia Walked Earth …
Lucy the Australopithecine was not alone in Ethiopia millions of years ago. A newly discovered species of human ancestor was also there at the ... «Tech Times, May 15»

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