ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈnȯidēə noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Homin-, Homo + -oidea
1. in some classifications : a major division of Primates segregating Homo and related fossil forms from the great apes
2. : a superfamily of Anthropoidea comprising the great apes and the recent and fossil hominids as distinguished from the lower Old World monkeys — compare cercopithecidae