Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
Hom·i·noi·dea Pronunciation:
"häm-&-'noid-E-& Function:
noun plural 1 in some classifications : a major division of the order Primates segregating
Homo and related fossil forms from the great apes
2 : a superfamily of the primate suborder Anthropoidea including recenthominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera
Proconsul and
Dryopithecus) as distinguished from the lower Old World monkeys—compare
CERCOPITHECIDAE
