Bimana

See also: bimana

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, bi- +‎ Latin manus (“hand”), formed as a neuter plural

Proper noun

Bimana

1. (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)

Coordinate terms

• Quadrumana