| Noun | 1. | family Hominidae - modern man and extinct immediate ancestors of man mammal family - a family of mammals Anthropoidea, suborder Anthropoidea - monkeys; apes; hominids hominid - a primate of the family Hominidae genus Homo - type genus of the family Hominidae Australopithecus, genus Australopithecus - extinct genus of African hominid genus Plesianthropus, Plesianthropus - former name for the genus Australopithecus genus Sivapithecus - extinct primates; lower Pliocene Dryopithecus, genus Dryopithecus - genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene genus Ouranopithecus, Ouranopithecus - a genus of Hominidae genus Lufengpithecus, Lufengpithecus - a genus of Hominidae |