Australopithecus boisei
[ boi-sey ]
/ bɔɪˈseɪ /
noun
an 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.
a fossil belonging to this species.
Origin of Australopithecus boisei
< New Latin;
boisei after Charles
Boise, a benefactor of L.S.B. Leakey, who described and named the original finds in 1959