Hominidae

Translingual

Homo sapiens sapiens
(subfamily Homininae)

Etymology

From Homo +‎ -idae (using homin-, stem for inflections of homo (“human”)).

Proper noun

Hominidae

1. A taxonomic family within the order Primates – great apes: chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, humans, and extinct relatives.
2. (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), →DOI, [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5320325 ���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

• (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

• (family): Ponginae, Homininae (subfamilies)
  • †Dryopithecinae (extinct subfamily)

References

• 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