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hominoid, a. and n.|ˈhɒmɪnɔɪd|
[f. L. homo, homin- man + -oid.]
A. adj.
a. Of human form; man-like (rather than ape-like). Cf. humanoid a. and n.
1927Glasgow Herald 3 Sept. 4/2 The divergence of the Hominoid and the Anthropoid branches. 1937Discovery Feb. 62/1 He fixes the habitat for the first hominoid being as central Asia.
b. [ad. mod.L. Hominoidea (G. G. Simpson 1931, in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. LIX. 272).] Of, belonging to, or characteristic of a hominoid or the Hominoidea.
1950Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. CV. 238 In all the hominoid species of Miocene and Pliocene age so far known..the canine is in the form of a strong pointed tooth. 1959Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. XXIV. 238/1 In 1949, Hürseler in Basel re-evaluated the..Oreopithecus material from the 19th century, and recognized it as being hominoid. 1973Nature 3 Aug. 313/1 Species of Ramapithecus are among the few hominoid species currently considered as possibly close to the direct line of human ancestry.
B. n.
a. An animal resembling man.
1927Glasgow Herald 3 Sept. 4/2 The early hominoids.
b. spec. [ad. mod.L. Hominoidea (see above)]: a member of the superfamily Hominoidea, which includes man and the anthropoid apes.
1949W. E. Le Gros Clark Hist. Primates 74 The earliest fossil records or true Man, that is, of hominoids which definitely come within the family of the Hominidae, have been found in the Far East. 1950Q. Jrnl Geol. Soc. CV. 231 A great many specimens of fossil hominoids..were collected. 1963R. Carrington Million Years of Man iii. 26 The smallest and most primitive of all living hominoids are the gibbons. 1967W. E. Le Gros Clark Man-Apes or Ape-Men? i. 2 The human and anthropoid ape families are now usually included in a common group, a superfamily called the Hominoidea (or, colloquially, hominoids). |