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homo

ho.mo \'ho--(.)mo-\ n [NL Homin-, Homo, genus name, fr. L, man] : any of a 
   genus (Homo) of primate mammals that consists of mankind  and is usu. held 
   to include a single recent species (H. sapiens) comprising all surviving 
   and various extinct men