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hominines

hominines is the plural of hominine.

Meaning of hominine

Noun

hominine (plural hominines)

  1. Any member of the subfamily Homininae.
    • To judge from its sinuses, Hispanopithecus crusafonti is the earliest known hominine (the group including all great apes except orangs).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 115

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Questions about hominines

What is hominines the plural of?
Hominines is the plural of hominine.

Words near hominines in the dictionary

  1. hominies
  2. hominiform
  3. hominiforms
  4. hominin
  5. hominine
  6. hominines
  7. hominins
  8. hominisation
  9. hominise
  10. hominised
  11. hominises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hominines (page history and authors); hominine (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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