homo sapien

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Homo sapien¹

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Back-formation from the taxonomic name Homo sapiens, treated as if an English plural form.

noun Homo sapiens · homo sapien

  1. nonstandard A member of the species Homo sapiens. A child possesses no human nature at birth. At this time he is only a raw homo sapien with human nature potentials, ...

homo sapien²

noun homo sapiens

  1. alternative Alternative spelling of Homo sapien

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@misc{homo_sapien_2026,
  title = {homo sapien},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/homo%20sapien},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}