Bimana

[bimәnә]

Definition

(n. pl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of Mammalia.

Inputed by Hubert

Definition

n. a term used by Blumenbach Cuvier &c. to describe the human species in contrast to other mammals—now rarely used men and monkeys being now zoologically united in the old Linn鎍n order—Primates.—adj. Bī′manous.

Typist: Marcus