Thesaurus:hominid
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Noun
Sense: any primate of the family Hominidae
Synonyms
- great ape (if including Homo)
- hominid
- hominiform
Hypernyms
- hominoid (superfamily)
- catarrhine (parvorder)
- simian, simiiform (infraorder)
- haplorhine (suborder)
- primate [⇒ thesaurus] (order)
- mammal [⇒ thesaurus] (class)
Hyponyms
- bonobo
- chimpanzee
- gorilla
- great ape [⇒ thesaurus] (if excluding Homo)
- hominin
- human [⇒ thesaurus]
- orangutan
See also
Further reading
- “hominid” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “hominid” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.