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panine

panine noun: a mammal of the genus Pan.

Noun

panine (plural panines)

  1. (rare) A mammal of the genus Pan.
    • However, if Sahelanthropns tchadensis is considered to be a panine, it is the oldest (lower Pliocene from northern Chad, 7 MYA).2006, Guillaume Lecointre, The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification, page 501
    • The first will give us, amongst others, the gibbon (hylobatides), the second, the orangutan (pongides), the third, the family of the gorilla, the chimpanzee, the bonobo (panines), and finally, Homo sapiens (hominids), the only permanent biped.2006, Jean Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, page 25

Forms of panine

pluralpanines

Origin of panine

From Pan + -ine.

Words formed from panine

  • panine herpesvirus

Questions about panine

What does panine mean?
Panine means a mammal of the genus Pan.
What part of speech is panine?
Panine is a noun.
What is the plural of panine?
The plural of panine is panines.

Words near panine in the dictionary

  1. panimmunity
  2. panims
  3. panin
  4. Paninaan
  5. paninaro
  6. panine
  7. Paninean
  8. panines
  9. paninflammatory
  10. paning
  11. Paningayan

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