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hominoids

hominoids is the plural of hominoid.

Meaning of hominoid

Noun

hominoid (plural hominoids)

  1. Any anthropoid (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea.
    • Hominoids differ from monkeys in several ways, the most striking being the lack of an external tail.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 111

Questions about hominoids

What is hominoids the plural of?
Hominoids is the plural of hominoid.

Words near hominoids in the dictionary

  1. hominize
  2. hominized
  3. hominizes
  4. hominizing
  5. hominoid
  6. hominoids
  7. hominology
  8. Homintern
  9. hominy
  10. hominy snow
  11. hominy snows

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