Hominidae
Translingual
Etymology
From Homo + -idae (using homin-, stem for inflections of homo (“human”)).
Proper noun
Hominidae
- A taxonomic family within the order Primates – great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, humans, and extinct relatives.
- (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – humans and our extinct relatives, but excluding chimpanzees and orangutans.
- 1965, E. L. Simons, D. R. Pilbeam, “Preliminary Revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea)”, in Folia Primatol (Basel), volume 3, number 3(2), , →PMID, page 81:
- For many years it has been realized that the origins of both Pongidae and Hominidae are probably to be found among species of the Miocene-Pliocene pongid subfamily Dryopthecinae.
Hypernyms
- (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Primates – order; Haplorrhini – suborder; Simiiformes – infraorder; Catarrhini – parvorder; Hominoidea – superfamily
Hyponyms
References
- Hominidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Hominidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Hominidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Hominidae in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Hominidae at Paleobiology Database