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单词 hominoid
释义

hominoid

/ˈhɒmɪnɔɪd /
Zoology
noun
A 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.
adjective
Relating 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.

Origin

Early 20th century: from Latin homo, homin- 'human being' + -oid.

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