单词 | hominine |
释义 | hominineadj.n. Palaeontology. A. adj. ΘΚΠ the world > people > [adjective] > relating to mankind mannisheOE fleshlyc1175 manlya1225 fleshya1400 human1495 microcosmical1570 microcosmala1644 anthropic1816 microcosmic1816 humanitary1851 hominal1861 hominine1883 neanthropic1894 pan-human1900 sapient1971 1883 American 5 204 If the footprints are really those of a hominine species. 1896 F. H. Giddings Princ. Sociol. iii. ii. 225 From the moment that the hominine species began to practice speech, however feebly, however awkwardly, it began to develop a human nature. 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of hominines (sense B. 2); belonging to the subfamily Homininae. ΘΚΠ the world > people > protohuman > transitional types > [adjective] prehuman1844 protohuman1899 pre-man1912 prehominid1940 hominine1957 1957 Science 26 Apr. 817/1 A third group, Robinson's Telanthropus, is regarded by him as truly hominine and is omitted from the present study. 1989 C. J. Avers Process & Pattern Evol. xii. 512 The dentition of Olduvai habiline fossils was earlier inferred to be more hominine that australopithecine in character, particularly in tooth size. 2007 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 1 Jan. f1 The big toe, once sticking out to the side to help our hominine ancestors climb trees and grasp branches, eventually took its place in the lineup of toes. B. n. 1. A primate zoologically related to humans. Cf. sense A. 1. rare. ΚΠ 1916 Geogr. Jrnl. 48 350 The peculiar human species known as Homo neanderthalensis probably originated in Europe from an early hominine, which may equally have been the ancestor of the Piltdown man and of Homo sapiens. 2. A primate of the subfamily Homininae, which originally comprised the large-brained hominids (in contrast to the small-brained ones of the subfamily Australopithecinae).In later use including also the australopithecines, and recently also one or more of the African great apes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > member of superfamily Hominoidea (apes and humans) > family Hominidae (humans and ancestors ) > member of homo1792 bimane1835 Neanderthal1874 hominid1889 hominoid1927 hominine1957 Kenyanthropus2001 1957 Science 26 Apr. 817/2 The australopithecines are in many respects more primitive than the higher or unquestioned human beings (hominines, technically). 1963 G. G. Simpson in S. L. Washburn Classif. & Human Evol. (1964) i. 29 In the Hominidae, I see no sufficient reason for having two subfamilies... ‘Australopithecine’ and ‘hominine’ may still be used as strictly vernacular terms for structural level. 1999 Amer. Jrnl. Physical Anthropol. 108 110/1 Gorillas are the most highly dimorphic hominines and offer a much greater range of size. 2004 ABC Premium News (Austral.) (Nexis) 21 Sept. What the hobbit remains are now telling us is that the hominines that we thought went extinct at least a million or more years ago, here is one surviving lineage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1883 |
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