hominid
🇬🇧/ˈhɒmɪnɪd/ 🇺🇸/ˈhɑːmɪnɪd/ 55any primate of the family Hominidae, which includes modern man (Homo sapiens) and the extinct precursors of man 原人
noun [专属名词]原始人类；人科动物
Olduvai Gorge, an early hominid site in Tanzania, was found by a butterfly hunter who literally fell into its deep valley in 1911.
坦桑尼亚早期的原始人类遗址，奥杜瓦伊峡谷是1911年，一名蝴蝶猎人掉进峡谷深处时发现的。
adjective [原级]人类及其祖先的
A hominid is really any extinct ape more closely related to us than the chimpanzee.
原始人类中任何一个灭绝的猿物种和我们的关系都比黑猩猩更密切。
homi(人) + nid → 像人的动物 → 灵长目动物
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