HOMO SAPIENS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Homo sapiens mean? 

• HOMO SAPIENS (noun)
  The noun HOMO SAPIENS has 1 sense:

1. the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc

  Familiarity information: HOMO SAPIENS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMO SAPIENS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain volume at least 1400 cc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Homo sapiens" is a kind of...):

homo; human; human being; man (any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Homo sapiens"):

Cro-magnon (extinct human of Upper Paleolithic in Europe)

Boskop man (possible early Homo sapiens represented by a cranium found in the Transvaal; formerly considered a separate species)

Homo sapiens sapiens; modern man (subspecies of Homo sapiens; includes all modern races)

Holonyms ("Homo sapiens" is a member of...):

genus Homo (type genus of the family Hominidae)

 Context examples 

Similar sequences have been identified in Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Schizosaccharomyces pombe.

(MOIRA Gene Product, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar sequences have been identified in Caenorhabditis elegans, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Plasmodium falciparum, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

(ISWI Family Protein, NCI Thesaurus)

The bipedal primate mammal, Homo sapiens; belonging to man or mankind; pertaining to man or to the race of man; use of man as experimental subject or unit of analysis in research.

(Human, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar sequences have been identified in Caenorhabditis elegans, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

(ACF complex, NCI Thesaurus)

Similar sequences have been identified in Caenorhabditis elegans, Gallus gallus, Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, and Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

(BRAHMA, NCI Thesaurus)

For instance, category could be 'species name', value could be 'homo sapiens' and ontology would be taxonomy database, NCBI.

(Ontology Entry, NCI Thesaurus)

Since the first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa 300,000 years ago, grasslands have sustained humans and thousands of other species.

(Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands, National Science Foundation)