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Homo sapiens

noun

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin homō sapiēns, from Latin homō (“human being”) + sapiēns (“wise, sensible, judicious”).

  1. derived from homō
  2. learned borrowing from homō sapiēns

Definitions

  1. plural of Homo sapien.

  2. A human being (Homo sapiens).

    • According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is over 415 parts per million (ppm), far higher than at any point in the last 800,000 years, since before the evolution of homo sapiens.

  3. plural of homo sapien

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No curated loop yet for Homo sapiens. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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