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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the Hominidæ; a human being.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures.
  • noun Any animal of the family Hominidae, including modern man as well as extinct species of the genera Homo and Australopithecus.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures

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