- family Hominidae
- nounmodern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man• Syn: ↑Hominidae• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family• Member Holonyms: ↑Anthropoidea, ↑suborder Anthropoidea• Member Meronyms:
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family Hominidae
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Hominidae — prop. n. The natural family of primates including modern man and the extinct immediate ancestors of man. Syn: family {Hominidae}. [WordNet 1.5] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Hominidae — ▪ anthropological family in zoology, one of the two living families of the ape superfamily Hominoidea, the other being the Hylobatidae ( gibbons). Hominidae includes the great apes that is, the orangutans (genus Pongo), gorillas (Gorilla),… … Universalium
Hominidae — noun modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man • Syn: ↑family Hominidae • Hypernyms: ↑mammal family • Member Holonyms: ↑Anthropoidea, ↑suborder Anthropoidea • Member Meronyms … Useful english dictionary
Hominidae — The primate family, which includes modern humans (Homo sapiens) and several fossil groups. * * * Ho·min·i·dae hō min ə .dē n pl a family of bipedal mammals of the order Primates comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related … Medical dictionary
Hominidae — n. family of man (Anthropology) … English contemporary dictionary
mammal family — noun a family of mammals • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑Tachyglossidae, ↑family Tachyglossidae, ↑Ornithorhynchidae, ↑family Ornithorhynchidae, ↑Didelphidae, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
primate — primatal, adj., n. primatial /pruy may sheuhl/, primatical /pruy mat i keuhl/, adj. /pruy mayt/ or, esp. for 1, /pruy mit/, n. 1. Eccles. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country. 2. any of various… … Universalium
Incertae sedis — (Latin for of uncertain placement ), abbreviated inc. sed. , is a term used to define a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined and which cannot be assigned to a recognized phylum. [… … Wikipedia
Great ape — Taxobox name = HominidsMSW3 Groves|pages=181 184|id=12100786] fossil range = Miocene to Recent image width = 250px image caption = Australopithecus africanus reconstruction regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Primates… … Wikipedia
taxonomy — taxonomic /tak seuh nom ik/, taxonomical, adj. taxonomically, adv. taxonomist, taxonomer, n. /tak son euh mee/, n. 1. the science or technique of classification. 2. Biol. the science dealing with the description, identification, naming, and… … Universalium
