hominine

1. 1.

   characteristic of humankind

   Similarhuman

Questions about hominine

What does hominine mean?

hominine means "characteristic of humankind".

How many syllables are in hominine?

hominine has 3 syllables and divides as ho-mi-nine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is hominine a common word?

hominine is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.