hominid
pronunciation
How to pronounce hominid in British English:
UK [ˈhɒmɪnɪd]
How to pronounce hominid in American English:
US [ˈhɑːmɪnɪd]
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- Noun:
- a primate of the family Hominidae
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- Adjective:
- characterizing the family Hominidae, which includes Homo sapiens sapiens as well as extinct species of manlike creatures
Word Origin
- hominid (n.)
- 1889, "family of mammals represented by man," from Modern Latin Hominidæ the biological family name, coined 1825 from Latin homo (genitive hominis) "man" (see homunculus). As an adjective from 1915.
Example
- 1. Why do I keep calling you a hominid ?
- 2. She calculated such a hominid could have sweated up to 13.6 litres a day .
- 3. Fragmentary hominid bones have been found there too , extending back to 5.8 million years .
- 4. What they found was one of the most famous hominid fossils of all time - peking man .
- 5. A hominid is really any extinct ape more closely related to us than the chimpanzee .