hominid

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˈhɒm.ɪ.nɪd]
• 美式音标 [ˈhɑː.mɪ.nɪd]
• 国际音标 ['hɔminid]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• n. 原始人类；人科动物
• adj. 人类及其祖先的

词根记忆

• homi(=hom人) + nid→原始人类；人科动物
• homi(人) + nid→像人的动物→灵长目动物

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• 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。
• H. erectus is generally believed to be the direct ancestor of modern humans and also the first hominid to live in caves and tame fire.
  人们通常认为直立人是现代人的直接祖先，也是第一个生活在洞穴中和学会用火的原始人类。
• DNA studies, for example, suggest that our ancient human ancestors interbred, with Neanderthals possibly being absorbed into our gene pool and disappearing as their own distinct hominid species.
  例如，DNA研究就显示古代人类的祖先也曾进行杂交，尼安德特人的基因很可能已被我们的基因库所吸收，而他们做为不同的原始人类物种却已经消失。

原声例句

• Yes,you can see horns." These 500 to 1000-year-old cave paintings are young compared to the skeleton of Ardi, an upright hominid more than four million years old discovered in Ethiopia's Great Rift Valley .

权威例句

• In other words, we are descended from hominid wusses who thrived because they kept away from spiders.
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• By far the most complete hominid skeletons in the world have been found here, dating back two million years.
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词组短语

短语

• Tubo hominid 土博人类化石
• hominid apes 类人猿
• hominid fossil [人类]人类化石
• hominid model 类人猿模型
• Hominid Fragmentation 原始人各自为政

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• a member of a group that consists of humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang-utangs, or an early form of one of these

专业释义

生物学

• 原始人类
• 人类
• 类人猿