HOMINIDAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hominidae mean? 

• HOMINIDAE (noun)
  The noun HOMINIDAE has 1 sense:

1. modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man

  Familiarity information: HOMINIDAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOMINIDAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Hominidae; Hominidae

Hypernyms ("Hominidae" is a kind of...):

mammal family (a family of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Hominidae" is a member of...):

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

 Context examples 

Any haplorhine primate not belonging to the family Tarsiidae, Hylobatidae, Pongidae, or Hominidae; this does not correspond to any taxon.

(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)

Any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms.

(Hominid, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)