How do you use Hominine in a sentence? See 3 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like human, plus the exact meaning.
Hominine meaning
Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.
Synonyms of Hominine
Using Hominine
- The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the Homininae, a subfamily of Hominidae that includes humans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and some extinct relatives.
- Useful related words include: human.
- In the example corpus, hominine often appears in combinations such as: hominine fossils, no hominine.
Context around Hominine
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Hominine
- In this selection, "hominine" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fossils and dispersal stand out and add context to how "hominine" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include because no hominine fossils were and episodes of hominine dispersal from. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "hominine" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with hominine
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The fact that no hominine fossils were found in forests does not ultimately lead to the conclusion that no hominines ever died there. (23 words)
Hominine fossils found in dry grassland environments led anthropologists to believe hominines lived, slept, walked upright, and died only in those environments because no hominine fossils were found in forested areas. (31 words)
Prehistory further Nahal Me'arot caves Between 2.6 and 0.9 million years ago, at least four episodes of hominine dispersal from Africa to the Levant are known, each culturally distinct. (32 words)
Prehistory further Nahal Me'arot caves Between 2.6 and 0.9 million years ago, at least four episodes of hominine dispersal from Africa to the Levant are known, each culturally distinct. (32 words)
Hominine fossils found in dry grassland environments led anthropologists to believe hominines lived, slept, walked upright, and died only in those environments because no hominine fossils were found in forested areas. (31 words)
The fact that no hominine fossils were found in forests does not ultimately lead to the conclusion that no hominines ever died there. (23 words)
Example sentences (3)
Hominine fossils found in dry grassland environments led anthropologists to believe hominines lived, slept, walked upright, and died only in those environments because no hominine fossils were found in forested areas.
Prehistory further Nahal Me'arot caves Between 2.6 and 0.9 million years ago, at least four episodes of hominine dispersal from Africa to the Levant are known, each culturally distinct.
The fact that no hominine fossils were found in forests does not ultimately lead to the conclusion that no hominines ever died there.
Common combinations with hominine
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- hominine fossils 3×
- no hominine 2×