English

Noun

panine ‎(plural panines)

1. (rare) A mammal of the genus Pan.
   • 2006, Guillaume Lecointre, The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification, page 501:

     However, if Sahelanthropns tchadensis is considered to be a panine, it is the oldest (lower Pliocene from northern Chad, 7 MYA).

   • 2006, Jean Abitbol, Odyssey of the Voice, page 25:

     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.

   • 2009, Èva Bodzsár, New Perspectives and Problems in Anthropology, page 5:

     I have previously pointed out that while there is an obvious difference in the pelves between panines and hominines, there are also differences in the usual number of lumbar vertebrae, so in the position of the sacrum.

Derived terms

• panine herpesvirus