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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 the family 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

[From New Latin Hominidae, family name, from Latin homō, homin-, man; see dhghem- in Indo-European roots.]

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