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hominid, n. and a.|ˈhɒmɪnɪd|
[ad. mod.L. Hominid-æ, a family of mammals represented by the single genus Homo (man), f. L. homo, homin-em, man: see -id. Cf. F. pl. hominides.]
A. n. A member of the mammal family Hominidæ (J. E. Gray 1825, in Ann. Philos. XXVI. 338), of which Homo sapiens, man, is the only surviving species.
1889Cent. Dict., Hominid, one of the Hominidæ; a man. 1916Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXV. 347 Some day..one will discover a hominid of small stature, and almost erect posture. 1925Glasgow Herald 25 July 4 That the human race, with all its tentative as well as more or less realised Hominids, arose from an ancestral stock common to it and the Anthropoids. 1957Observer 1 Sept. 11/1 This glittering..exhibition is..the latest in toyfairs for spoilt hominids. 1969Times 17 Jan. 13/6 A fragment of the upper part of a thigh bone from a hominid which lived at least three million years ago has now been recovered from the Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania.
B. adj. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hominid or the Hominidæ.
1916Bull Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. XXXV. 347 The divergence of the Hominid branch occurred..from the anthropoid stem after the separation of the gibbons. 1939C. S. Coon Races of Europe ii. 51 During the Middle Pleistocene..a mixture took place between early white dolichocephals and one or more non-sapiens hominid species, including Homo neanderthalensis. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study of Man xxxii. 444 Hominid creatures existed a good deal earlier than had previously been supposed. 1971Nature 30 July 308/1 So few identifiable parts were visible that it is remarkable it was recognized as hominid. |