Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various primates of the family Hominidae, which includes orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and modern humans, and their extinct relatives. The family formerly included only Homo sapiens, extinct species of Homo, and the extinct genus Australopithecus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Hominidæ; a man.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
primate of thefamily Hominidae . All the great apes (Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans). - adjective Of the Hominidae
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
- noun a primate of the family Hominidae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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So I tried again and asked, “But the issue is what did the British museum have in mind when they used the term hominid in their catalog?
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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So I tried again and asked, “But the issue is what did the British museum have in mind when they used the term hominid in their catalog?
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The term hominid refers to modern humans and all their ancestors and collateral relatives dating back to the split between hominids and the lineage that ultimately gave rise to chimpanzees, sometime between about 6.5 million and 10 million years ago.
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‘So I tried again and asked, But the issue is what did the British museum have in mind when they used the term hominid in their catalog?
Report on the 2005 Creation Mega Conference, Part Four - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children.
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010
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Behavior be it marine mammal or terrestrial hominid is so interesting to me …
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I used the word hominid Aside: is this the origin of the word Ho? in the first post rather naively.
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I used the word hominid Aside: is this the origin of the word Ho? in the first post rather naively.
Heads Up: Putting Selam in perspective « Eclectics Anonymous 2006
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They are the most complete bones of any early human ancestor - or 'hominid' - ever found.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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The nearly two-million-year-old fossil, dubbed Australopithecus sediba, is being described as a new species of hominid, which is defined as a primate of a family that includes humans and their fossil ancestors,
Pravda.Ru 2010
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