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FAMILY HOMINIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Hominidae mean?
• FAMILY HOMINIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY HOMINIDAE has 1 sense:
1. modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
Familiarity information: FAMILY HOMINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Hominidae; Hominidae
Hypernyms ("family Hominidae" is a kind of...):
mammal family (a family of mammals)
Meronyms (members of "family Hominidae"):
hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)
genus Homo (type genus of the family Hominidae)
Australopithecus; genus Australopithecus (extinct genus of African hominid)
genus Plesianthropus; Plesianthropus (former name for the genus Australopithecus)
genus Sivapithecus (extinct primates; lower Pliocene)
Dryopithecus; genus Dryopithecus (genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene)
genus Ouranopithecus; Ouranopithecus; genus Lufengpithecus; Lufengpithecus (a genus of Hominidae)
Holonyms ("family Hominidae" is a member of...):
Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)
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