/hom"euh nid/ , n. Anthropol.
any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family Hominidae, including all species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus. See illus. in next columns.
Also, homonid, hominian /hoh min"ee euhn/ .
[ 1885-90; Hominidae, equiv. to L homin- (s. of homo ) man (see HOMO) + -idae -ID 2 ]