Thesaurus:hominid

Thesaurus

hominid

English

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

• Category:en:Hominids

Further reading

• “hominid” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “hominid” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.