| 释义 |
pongid, n. and a. Zool.|ˈpɒŋgɪd|
[f. mod.L. family name Pongidæ, f. generic name Pongo (B. G. E. de La V. Lacépède Tableau des Mammifères (1799) 4: see etym. of pongo) + -id3.]
a. n. An anthropoid ape belonging to the family Pongidæ, which includes the gorilla, the chimpanzee, and the orang-utan.
b. adj. Of or pertaining to this group of apes.
1955W. E. Le Gros Clark Fossil Evidence Human Evolution iv. 141 The differential characters of the dentition.., on the basis of the comparative study of large numbers of hominids and pongids.., have been established. 1957Antiquity XXXI. 191 Another tarsioid line produced the primitive apes (the pongid line). 1963New Scientist 27 June 737/1 Dr Leakey revealed that there were true pongids (apes) living in East Africa during the Miocene period. 1968Nature 9 Nov. 548/1 To split the African apes from the Pongidae and place them in the Hominidae would ignore the extraordinary change in the hominid line since it split off from the pongid line. 1973B. J. Williams Evolution & Human Origins ix. 127/2 The genus Dryopithecus is ancestral to the present-day African pongids, the gorilla and chimpanzee. Ibid. 129/1 Ramapithecus is smaller than most species of the fossil pongid genus Dryopithecus. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 284 The hominids are a family containing Man and his close relatives, distinct from the family of apes, the pongids. |