Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea, which consists of the lesser apes and the great apes including humans.
  • adjective Resembling a human.
  • noun A member of the Hominoidea.

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  • noun Any great ape (such as man) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea

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  • noun a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From New Latin Hominoīdea, superfamily name : Homō, type genus (from Latin homō, homin-, man; see homo) + -oīdea, neuter pl. of -oīdēs, resembling (from Greek -oeidēs, -oid).]

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Examples

  • The hominoid (please note, not hominid) body, found in the Georgia woods, is now in a secure location, under armed guard, and set to be examined by a battery of academic scholars, skeptical scientists, Bigfoot researchers, and debunking writers.

    Boing Boing 2008

  •      So it was a difficult thing when, much later, after I had graduated from the University of Indiana and become well established in my job as technical editor at Special Waste and Industrial Pollution Engineering, I couldn't persuade her she was throwing her life away looking for the gigantic hominoid known as Bigfoot.

    An Ancient Symbol for Fire 2009

  • Although a group led by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) started combing the woods around Marquette on Thursday for signs of Sasquatch, they may be looking at the wrong end of Michigan for the fabled hairy hominoid.

    Archive 2007-07-15 Bill Crider 2007

  • And contrary to his assertions that he doesn't "do personal attacks," IU has documented the reality that any cognitively functional bipedal hominoid has already figured out - O'Reilly is a bullying buffoon:

    Bill O'Reilly: Propaganda Pimp JDsg 2007

  • In the process, Hersom hopes to change the popular conception of Bigfoot believers from wooly-eyed weirdos to heroic hominoid hunters.

    Bigfoot Update Bill Crider 2007

  • Reading Engrish from 400 years ago one will get the point …namely that whilst we may feel in our limited hominoid time frame that lingo is a steady state thang i.s spelling grammar context etc.

    Are we meat eaters or vegetarians? Part II | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • In the process, Hersom hopes to change the popular conception of Bigfoot believers from wooly-eyed weirdos to heroic hominoid hunters.

    Archive 2007-12-16 Bill Crider 2007

  • The replica 8 1/2 - foot hairy hominoid -- crafted from the fur of musk oxen and buffalo, a hulking presence on the porch of a brown-and-yellow home in Portland, Maine -- scares the bejesus out of the UPS man.

    Boing Boing: February 26, 2006 - March 4, 2006 Archives 2006

  • It depicts the kalanoro, a "short, three-toed, bipedal, water-dwelling, mean, scruffy-hair hominoid" apparently known to tribes in Madagascar.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • * Having said that though, given that people have applied the term ‘monkey’ to all extant non-hominoid anthropoids, a stem-group hominoid would still likely be identified by people as a ‘monkey’.

    Archive 2006-06-01 Darren Naish 2006

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