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Noun: Lucy  loo-see
  1. The partial skeleton of a female Australopithecus afarensis discovered in Ethiopia in 1974, significant for understanding human evolution
    "Lucy provided evidence of early bipedalism in human ancestors"

Type of: Australopithecus afarensis

Part of: Australopithecus, genus Australopithecus

Encyclopedia: Lucy, Robert