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Ardi

[ ahr-dee ]

noun

  1. the fossil remains of a female specimen of Ardipithecus ramidus , an extinct hominine, found in northeastern Ethiopia between 1992 and 1994 and dated at about 4.4 million years of age.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Ardi1

First recorded in 2005–10; short for Ardipithecus ( def )
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Example Sentences

Ardi climbed trees cautiously and rarely hung or swung from branches, those researchers hold.

To assess which species possessed especially similar hands, Prang’s team analyzed the sizes and dimensions of four fossils from Ardi’s hands.

Prang’s earlier analysis of Ardi’s feet also falls short of demonstrating a chimplike design, Chaney and colleagues argue January 10 in the Journal of Human Evolution.

Similarities in body mass between Ardi and chimps, rather than a close evolutionary relationship, at least partly explain the chimplike foot measurements that Prang cites.

Ardi’s relatively long mid-foot, which is ill-suited to climbing, was not accounted for in Prang’s statistical analysis, the scientists say.

It was the same with Illyria after the submission of the Ardi .

Ardi-Ea carries out these instructions and Gilgamesh at last is healed.

Ardi-Ea, ferryman of Parnapishtim, 491;takes Gilgamesh to the fountain of life, 509.

El sol que calent la cuna de San Martn es tibio en comparacin del que ardi sobre la de Bolvar.

Ardi-Ea urges Gilgamesh to cling to the rudder, and counts the strokes he is to take.

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