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hominoid /ˈhɒmɪnɔɪd /Zoology nounA primate of a group that includes humans, their fossil ancestors, and the anthropoid apes.- Superfamily Hominoidea: families Hominidae and Hylobatidae.
A first look at the jaw shows that it's different from all other fossil hominoids and more similar to large, existing apes....- The fossil record is replete with evidence supporting a plant-eating, basically frugivorous way of life for ancestral anthropoids, particularly hominoids.
- All extant hominoids with the exception of highland gorillas are strongly frugivorous.
adjectiveRelating to hominoid primates.At present, there seems little evidence to support a view of selection specifically for ethanol detection or its utilization over the course of hominoid evolution....- Fruit-eating also characterized a number of now extinct hominoid lineages.
- Right from the very first poster, visitors are thrown back millions of years to Africa, the only continent to yield a relatively continuous record of hominoid evolution.
OriginEarly 20th century: from Latin homo, homin- 'human being' + -oid. |