Definitions for Homo
ˈhoʊ moʊho·mo

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.3 / 3 votes

1. homosexual, homophile, homo, gaynoun

   someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex

2. homo, man, human being, humannoun

   any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. homonoun

   Short form of homosexual.

2. homonoun

   Homogenized milk with a high butterfat content.

3. homoadjective

   Of or pertaining to homosexuality.

4. homoadjective

   Homogenized; almost always said of milk with a high butterfat content.

5. Etymology: A clipping of words formed from Greek ὁμο- (homo-, meaning same).

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1. Homo

   Homo (from Latin homō 'man') is the genus that emerged in the (otherwise extinct) genus Australopithecus that encompasses the extant species Homo sapiens (modern humans), plus several extinct species classified as either ancestral to or closely related to modern humans (depending on the species), most notably H. erectus and H. neanderthalensis. The genus emerged with the appearance of H. habilis just over 2 million years ago. Homo, together with the genus Paranthropus, is probably sister to Australopithecus africanus, which itself had previously split from the lineage of Pan, the chimpanzees.Homo erectus appeared about 2 million years ago and, in several early migrations, spread throughout Africa (where it is dubbed H. ergaster) and Eurasia. It was likely that the first human species lived in a hunter-gatherer society and was able to control fire. An adaptive and successful species, H. erectus persisted for more than a million years and gradually diverged into new species by around 500,000 years ago.Anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens) emerged close to 300,000 to 200,000 years ago, in Africa, and H. neanderthalensis emerged around the same time in Europe and Western Asia. H. sapiens dispersed from Africa in several waves, from possibly as early as 250,000 years ago, and certainly by 130,000 years ago, the so-called Southern Dispersal beginning about 70–50,000 years ago leading to the lasting colonisation of Eurasia and Oceania by 50,000 years ago. Both in Africa and Eurasia, H. sapiens met with and interbred with archaic humans. Separate archaic (non-sapiens) human species are thought to have survived until around 40,000 years ago (Neanderthal extinction).

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1. Homo

   Homo is the genus of great apes that includes modern humans and species closely related to them. The genus is estimated to be about 2.3 to 2.4 million years old, possibly having evolved from australopithecine ancestors, with the appearance of Homo habilis. Several species, including Australopithecus garhi, Australopithecus sediba, Australopithecus africanus, and Australopithecus afarensis, have been proposed as the direct ancestor of the Homo lineage. Each of these species have morphological features that align them with Homo, but there is no consensus on which actually gave rise to Homo. The most salient physiological development between the earlier Australopith species and Homo is the increase in cranial capacity, from about 450 cm³ in A. garhi to 600 cm³ in H. habilis. Within the Homo genus, cranial capacity again doubled from H. habilis through Homo ergaster or H. erectus to Homo heidelbergensis by 0.6 million years ago. The cranial capacity of H. heidelbergensis overlaps with the range found in modern humans. The advent of Homo was thought to coincide with the first evidence of stone tools, and thus by definition with the beginning of the Lower Palaeolithic; however, recent evidence from Ethiopia now places the earliest evidence of stone tool usage at before 3.39 million years ago. The emergence of Homo coincides roughly with the onset of Quaternary glaciation, the beginning of the current ice age.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Homo

   hō′mō, n. generic man. [L.]

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1. HOMO

   What does HOMO stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HOMO acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

EntomologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Homo

   prefix = the same; similar.

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1. • Hominid

Anagrams for Homo »

1. Moho

How to pronounce Homo?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Homo in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Homo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Homo in a Sentence

1. Juliet Brophy:

   This is the first partial skull of a child of Homo naledi yet recovered and this begins to give us insight into all stages of life of this remarkable species.

2. Martin Tobias Lithner:

   No species can withstand all the infinite factors to which it can be exposed. Homo sapiens is closer to mass death than other species of the same geographical distribution, largely because we hunt it ourselves.

3. Vulgate:

   Behold the man. (Ecce Homo)

4. Dartmouth College anthropologist Jeremy DeSilva:

   The legs are long, the knees are like ours, the feet are human-like. Homo naledi walked a lot like us.

5. Lee Berger:

   Homo naledi remains one of the most enigmatic ancient human relatives ever discovered, it is clearly a primitive species, existing at a time when previously we thought only modern humans were in South Africa. Its very presence at that time and in this place complexifies our understanding of who did what first concerning the invention of complex stone tool cultures and even ritual practices.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Homo
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Homo
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo
4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Homo
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Homo
6. ^ Entomology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22748/22748-h/22748-h.htm#:~:text=Homo