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Etymology
New Latin, bi- + Latin manus (“hand”), formed as a neuter plural
Proper noun
Bimana
- (obsolete) A taxonomic division within the order Primates – comprising Homo sapiens.
1871, Charles Darwin, Descent of Man (in English):The greater number of naturalists who have taken into consideration the whole structure of man, including his mental faculties, have followed Blumenbach and Cuvier, and have placed man in a separate Order, under the title of the Bimana, and therefore on an equality with the orders of the Quadrumana, Carnivora, &c.
- 1886, Pamphlets in the Tonga language, "Koe Hisitolia o Natula", page 58:
- Oku faa vahe ae kalasi huhu kihe faahiga e hiva, o behe:—
- 1. Koe manu nima ua (Bimana)
- There are nine things like parts called the classes which have breasts, like so:—
- 1. The animals with two hands (Bimana)
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