hominoid
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin homin- + -oid, after scientific Latin Hominoidea (superfamily name).
Noun[edit]
hominoid (plural hominoids)
- Any primate (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea. [from 20th c.]
- 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 111:
- Hominoids differ from monkeys in several ways, the most striking being the lack of an external tail.