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English
Noun
hominid (plural hominids)
- Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the nonhuman great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.
- Synonyms: great ape; see also Thesaurus:hominid
- Hyponyms: great ape, hominin
Translations
primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae
- Catalan: homínid m
- Czech: hominid (cs) m
- Esperanto: homedo (eo)
- French: hominidé (fr) m
- Galician: homínido m
- German: Hominide (de) m, Hominid m (less common), Hominidin f, Großaffe m, Grossaffe m (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Großäffin f, Grossäffin f (Switzerland, Liechtenstein), Menschenaffe (de) m, Menschenäffin f
- Greek: Ανθρωπίδας (Anthropídas), Ανθρωπίδης (el) (Anthropídis)
- Irish: homainid f
- Italian: ominide (it) m
- Portuguese: hominídeo (pt)
- Romanian: hominid (ro) m
- Sicilian: uminidi m
- Spanish: homínido (es) m
- Swedish: människoapa (sv) c
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Adjective
hominid (not comparable)
- Of the Hominidae.
Translations
See also
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
hominid m anim
- hominid
Declension
Declension of hominid (hard masculine animate)
Related terms
Further reading
- hominid in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French hominide.
Noun
hominid m (plural hominizi)
- hominid
Declension