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habiline

a. Of or pertaining to habilines. n. A specimen of the now extinct species ''Homo habilis''.

Usage examples of "habiline".

She looked like a cross between a habiline and an Upright: big frame, thick neck, head thrust forward.

There were a lot of tall Uprights, many squat habilines, and some Waganda: men, women, and children who limped doggedly through the darkness, intense heat, and live steam, serving the heap as if it were some ugly god.

I charred the toe of one of my chukkas doing this, but the habilines, fuddled, parted to give me passage, then closed again and followed me to the lip of the granite wall.

Whether Roosevelt had relinquished the briefs willingly, I had no idea—but the sight of that hairy habiline modeling those dirty jockey shorts while laying waste about him with his stave—well, it cheered my twentieth-century soul.

I was as out of place among the habilines as she, a bran flake in a box of Cheerios.

I had hoped to make inroads on their concerted resistance by plying two or three of the younger habilines with sugar cubes and gum sticks from my survival gear, but the children would not let me approach them, and the mothers of the Minid teddy bears were extremely conscientious about keeping them close to hand.

In fact, at catching birds and tracking small game such as hyraxes and hares, he seemed to me one of the most adept of all the habilines.

In fact, she stood outside the more or less formal pair-bonding relationships structuring the habiline band.

I was certain, too, that habiline ears were much better than mine, that they apprehended these faint dawn concerts as powerful surgings of emotion.