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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin Hominoidea, from Homin-, Homo + -oidea, suffix of higher taxa, from Latin -oïdes ²-oid Date: 1949 any of a superfamily (Hominoidea) of primates including recent hominids, gibbons, and pongids together with extinct ancestral and related forms (as of the genera Proconsul and Dryopithecus) • hominoid adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. 1 like a human. 2 hominid or pongid. --n. an animal resembling a human.