Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun The natural family of primates including modern man and the extinct immediate ancestors of man.
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- noun modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man
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Examples
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I'm not saying she looked like a hominidae --it's the color hair and brown eyes really.
Harmon Leon: I Scout for Baby Orangutans That Vaguely Resemble My Ex-Girlfriend Harmon Leon 2011
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I'm not saying she looked like a hominidae --it's the color hair and brown eyes really.
Harmon Leon: I Scout for Baby Orangutans That Vaguely Resemble My Ex-Girlfriend Harmon Leon 2011
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Purring evolved well after the last common ancestor of hominidae and felinidae diverged, so there must be some other response trained by human species history that cat-purrs stimulate.
Armed and Dangerous 2009
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Homo sapiens (Latin for 'wise man') under the family hominidae
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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And of course the recent re-classification of chimpanzees into the hominidae family, right next to us homos.
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But until chimpanzees get these things called souls, like their fellow hominidae, who just happen to make the rules on the planet - the hairy chimps are doomed to be treated like shit.
Planet Atheism 2009
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