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homonid

homonid is the alternative form of hominid.

Meaning of hominid

Noun

hominid (plural hominids)

  1. (archaic) Any human, the only members of the family Hominidae as traditionally defined.
  2. Any anthropoid of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.

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Forms of homonid

pluralhomonids

Questions about homonid

What is homonid the alternative form of?
Homonid is the alternative form of hominid.

Words near homonid in the dictionary

  1. homonegative
  2. homonegativism
  3. homonegativity
  4. homoness
  5. homoneurous
  6. homonid
  7. homonids
  8. homonism
  9. homonisms
  10. homonomies
  11. homonomous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: homonid (page history and authors); hominid (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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