australopithecine

1. 1.

   of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus

Other forms of australopithecine

plural

australopithecines·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about australopithecine

What does australopithecine mean?

australopithecine means "any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in australopithecine?

australopithecine has 6 syllables: au-stra-lo-pit-he-cine. The stress falls on "pit". In IPA it is /ɔˌstɹeɪloʊˈpɪθəˌsaɪn/.

Is australopithecine a common word?

australopithecine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with australopithecine?

5 words rhyme with australopithecine. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.