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Does "Hominoidea" have an adjectival form?

English translation: hominoid

11:46 May 30, 2006
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Science - Biology (-tech,-chem,micro-)
English term or phrase: Does "Hominoidea" have an adjectival form?
Is there an adjectival form for Hominoidea? Literally my text says "Hominoidea primates". Of course, i could just leave out "primates" since all hominoidea are primates, but as it's the title of a university course, I prefer to leave it in if possible.
Timothy Barton
Local time: 20:07
Selected answer:hominoid
Explanation:
e.g. hominoid primates

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Merriam-Webster says:
hominoid: any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus)
–hominoid adjective
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Cilian O'Tuama
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Local time: 20:07
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3 +6hominoid
Cilian O'Tuama


  

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adjectival form of hominoidea
hominoid


Explanation:
e.g. hominoid primates

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Merriam-Webster says:
hominoid: any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus)
–hominoid adjective

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 20:07
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michael Powers (PhD): I agree and stand corrected. Mike :)
5 mins
agree  Maya Gorgoshidze
1 hr
agree  LukaszPL
1 hr
agree  humbird: Yes this is correct -- it's not only biology but also my favorite anthropology term.
5 hrs
  -> ... and ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes... )
agree  Rachel Fell
5 hrs
agree  Richard Benham: I don't exactly go ape over this topic, but you've hit the orang-utan on the head here.//Goody goody yum-yum.
8 hrs
  -> do do do the funky gibbon... (make allowances for me, it's late)
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