HOMINOID


Meaning of HOMINOID in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈhä-mə-ˌnȯid ]

noun

Etymology: New Latin Hominoidea, from Homin-, Homo + -oidea, suffix of higher taxa, from Latin -oïdes -oid (II)

Date: 1949

: any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus )

• hominoid adjective

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