hominoid
pronunciation
How to pronounce hominoid in British English:
UK [ˈhɒmɪnɔɪd]
How to pronounce hominoid in American English:
US [ ˈhɑːmɪnɔɪd]
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- Noun:
- a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea
Word Origin
- hominoid (adj.)
- "man-like," 1927, from Latin homo (genitive hominis) "man" (see homunculus) + -oid.
Example
- 1. Most visitors in attendance during earth 's transformation are not hominoid .
- 2. Most responses to the call are from a variety of life forms , an extreme minority being in the hominoid category .
- 3. Archaeologists discovered that there was another hominoid called homo neanderthalensis had been living happily in europe and the circumjacent land before our remote ancestors homo sapiens migrated to europe .