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Hominoidea

Hominoidea

Translingual

Proper noun

Hominoidea

  1. A taxonomic superfamily within the parvorder Catarrhini – the great apes etc.

Hyponyms

  • (superfamily): Hominidae (great apes and humans), Hylobatidae (gibbons) (families)
    • †Kenyapithecinae (extinct subfamily, incertae sedis)
    • Equatorius, †Griphopithecus, †Kenyapithecus, †Langsonia, †Morotopithecus, †Nacholapithecus, †Nakalipithecus, †Samburupithecus, †Ugandapithecus (extinct genera, incertae sedis)