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habilines

habilines is the plural of habiline.

Meaning of habiline

Noun

habiline (plural habilines)

  1. A specimen of the now extinct species Homo habilis.
    • By around 2.3 million years ago, the first tentative record emerges of a new species, a habiline. Habilines, still poorly understood, are the “missing link” between apes and humans.2009, Richard Wrangham, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, Basic Books, page 4

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Questions about habilines

What is habilines the plural of?
Habilines is the plural of habiline.

Words near habilines in the dictionary

  1. habiliment
  2. habilimentation
  3. habilimented
  4. habiliments
  5. habiline
  6. habilines
  7. habilitate
  8. habilitated
  9. habilitates
  10. habilitating
  11. habilitation

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