单词 | hominoid |
释义 | hominoidn.adj. Zoology and Palaeontology. A. n. A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, a taxon that includes the family Hominidae (cf. hominid n.).The Hominoidea originally comprised only humans, in contrast to anthropoid apes; in later use it comprises both humans and anthropoid apes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) dryopithecoid1927 hominoid1927 the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hominidae (humans and ancestors ) > member of homo1792 bimane1835 Neanderthal1874 hominid1889 hominoid1927 hominine1957 Kenyanthropus2001 1927 Glasgow Herald 3 Sept. 4/2 The early hominoids. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1270 There is reason to believe that the hominoids or ‘tentative men’ emerged on terra firma, leaving the anthropoid stock more or less arboreal. 1949 W. E. Le Gros Clark Hist. Primates 74 The earliest fossil records of true Man, that is, of hominoids which definitely come within the family of the Hominidae, have been found in the Far East. 1978 Nature 26 Oct. 744/2 They therefore encompass the spectrum of locomotor behaviour of living African hominoids: arboreality, terrestriality and bipedality. 2007 New Scientist 17 Feb. 52/3 Go up one level from the hominid family and you find a ‘superfamily’, called Hominoidea or hominoids, which includes the gibbons and orang-utans. B. adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of hominoids; belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [adjective] > Old World > of superfamily Hominoidea hominoid1927 the world > people > person > [adjective] > of human form two-legged1560 manlike1590 walkinga1616 hominiform1678 human-like1748 anthropomorphous1753 anthropomorphic1827 anthropoid1835 personified1851 bimanal1859 anthropoidal1865 humanoid1914 hominoid1950 android- 1927 Glasgow Herald 3 Sept. 4/2 The divergence of the Hominoid and the Anthropoid branches. 1950 Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. 105 238 In all the hominoid species of Miocene and Pliocene age so far known..the canine is in the form of a strong pointed tooth. 1973 Nature 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. 2005 C. Stringer & P. Andrews Compl. World Human Evol. ii. 88/2 The structure of the elbow region is a significant character in hominoid evolution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1927 |
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