Hominidae
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Translingual[edit]
(subfamily Homininae)
Etymology[edit]
From Homo + -idae (using homin-, stem for inflections of homo (“human”)).
Proper noun[edit]
Hominidae
- A taxonomic family within the order Primates – great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans, and extinct relatives.
- (archaic) A taxonomic family within the order Primates – humans and our extinct relatives, but excluding chimpanzees and orangutans.
- 1965, E. L. Simons, D. R. Pilbeam, “Preliminary Revision of the Dryopithecinae (Pongidae, Anthropoidea)”, in Folia Primatol (Basel), volume 3, number 3(2), , →PMID, page 81:
- For many years it has been realized that the origins of both Pongidae and Hominidae are probably to be found among species of the Miocene-Pliocene pongid subfamily Dryopthecinae.
Hypernyms[edit]
- (family): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria - subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia - infraclass; Primates - order; Haplorrhini - suborder; Simiiformes - infraorder; Catarrhini - parvorder; Hominoidea - superfamily
Hyponyms[edit]
- (family): Ponginae, Homininae (subfamilies)
- †Dryopithecinae (extinct subfamily)
References[edit]
Hominidae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Hominidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Hominidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Hominidae in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Hominidae at Paleobiology Database
