Swartkranz ape-man
noun
Swart·kranz ape-man
variants or Swartkrans man
ˈsfärtˌkränz,
ˈsvä-
: a large extinct southern African australopithecine (Homo erectus capensis) known from skulls, teeth, and other fossil skeletal remains and having a flat face and brow with weak supraorbital crest, a well-developed sagittal crest, a distinctly manlike jaw and teeth, and a brain capacity surpassing that of any recent ape and possibly that of Java man compare kromdraai ape-man
Word History
Etymology
from Swartkranz or Swartkrans, region near Johannesburg, South Africa, where the remains were found