Archaeopithecus
noun
Ar·chaeo·pithecus
Definition of Archaeopithecus
: a genus of extinct South American Eocene mammals once supposed to be ancestral to Pithecanthropus but now recognized as notoungulates
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Origin and Etymology of archaeopithecus
New Latin, from archae- + -pithecus
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