hominoidea

Questions about hominoidea

What does hominoidea mean?

hominoidea means "anthropoid apes and human beings".

How many syllables are in hominoidea?

hominoidea has 5 syllables and divides as ho-mi-no-i-dea 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.

What is another word for hominoidea?

Close synonyms include superfamily Hominoidea. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hominoidea a common word?

hominoidea is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.