n.
Pronunciation: ' hä-m ə - ˌ no ̇ id
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin Hominoidea, from Homin-, Homo + -oidea, suffix of higher taxa, from Latin -oïdes 2 -oid
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